omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Technical Supervisory Authority for Cableways (Norway). The Technical Supervisory Authority for Cableways () was the Norwegian authority responsible for cableways, including cable cars, aerial tramways, funiculars, ski lifts and similar installations. The authority has since 1 July 1977 been performed by the Trondheim office of Det Norske Veritas (DNV) on contract with the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications. The agency is self-financing and covers its costs through fees based on the services provided. The agency was dissolved on 1 January 2012 and the responsibility transferred to the Norwegian Railway Authority.

References

Cableways
Government agencies established in 1977
Organisations based in Trondheim
Transport authorities of Norway
DNV GL
1977 establishments in Norway
2012 disestablishments in Norway
Ministry of Transport (Norway)
Computing Machine Laboratory. The Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester in the north of England was established by Max Newman shortly after the end of World War II, around 1946.

The Laboratory was funded through a grant from the Royal Society, which was approved in the summer of 1946. He recruited the engineers Frederic Calland Williams and Thomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer, which came to be known as the Manchester Baby. Their prototype ran its first program on 21 June 1948.

References

1946 establishments in England
Year of disestablishment missing
Buildings at the University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
University and college laboratories in the United Kingdom
Royal Society
History of computing in the United Kingdom
Alan Turing
Hans Martin Seip. Hans Martin Seip (born 14 June 1937) is a Norwegian chemist. He is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo and Senior Research Scientist (part-time position) at CICERO.

Career
He was born in Oslo, and became civil engineer at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH- now NTNU) in 1961 and received the dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo with the thesis Studies on the failure of the first Born approximation in electron diffraction. He was a research fellow at NTH from 1965 to 1969, worked as a university lecturer from 1969 to 195, researcher at Central Institute for Industrial Research (later SINTEF) from 1976 to 1988. He was appointed professor of chemistry in 1979. Hans Martin Seip is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

Seip started his work in chemistry with studies on structural chemistry, later he turned his interests to environmental chemistry. He did several studies, and participated in the scientific debate on acid rain and its impact on forests and waters, during the 1970s and 1980s. There, he emphasized the impact of acid rain on acidification of waters and on fish mortality. However, he was also open to the effects of changing soil quality and the influence of changes in watershed vegetation. The work within this field started in Norway, but was then extended to Poland and China  He has subsequently made major contributions to the effects of pollutants on the human population. He is a spokesperson for the importance of co-benefits, that is, abatement measures for climate will also reduce other types of pollutants, like SO2, NOx and particulates. Most of this work has been in China.

Public services
Hans Martin Seip has also participated in the public debate about many issues, mostly on themes related to his research.

References

1937 births
Living people
Norwegian engineers
Norwegian chemists
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Lioré et Olivier LeO H-180. 

The Lioré et Olivier LeO H-180 was a 1920s French two-seat flying-boat built by Lioré et Olivier.

Development
The H-180 first flew in 1928 and was a cantilever high-wing monoplane flying-boat. Powered by a 120 hp (89 kW) Salmson 9Ac engine strut-mounted above the fuselage. It had two side-by-side seats in an open cockpit but the following year it was fitted with an enclosed cockpit and re-designated the LeO H-181. The company intended to build a production batch of ten aircraft but only five H-181s were built. One aircraft was destroyed and the others finding no buyers were used as test aircraft by the company.

Variants
H-180Two-seat touring / training flying boat; 1 built.
H-181An enclosed cockpit version, with increased span and longer fuselage; 5 built.

Specifications (H-180)

See also

References

Bibliography
 Hartmann, Gérard. Les Avions Lioré Et Olivier. Boulogne-Billancourt, France: ETAI. 2002.  (in French)

Flying boats
1920s French civil utility aircraft
H-180
Single-engined pusher aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Engine-over-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1928
Lockheed Little Dipper. The Lockheed Model 33 Little Dipper, also known as Air Trooper, was an American single-seat monoplane, designed by John Thorp and built by Lockheed at Burbank, California. Flown in 1944 and offered to the Army as a "flying motorcycle", it was evaluated as a potential entry for Lockheed into the civilian market, but the program was cancelled before the second prototype was completed.

Design and development
The design of the Model 33 originated with a private venture for a two-seat light aircraft by John Thorp, a Lockheed engineer. In April 1944, the company agreed to build the aircraft as the Lockheed Model 33. Due to wartime restrictions on materials, the company gained the interest of the United States Army in the aircraft as an "aerial flying motorcycle" to equip a "flying cavalry" under the name Air Trooper. The Army, willing to entertain the concept, authorized Lockheed to build two prototypes of the Model 33.

The Model 33 was of ordinary light-aircraft design, with a low-mounted cantilever monoplane wing and conventional empennage; powered by a  Franklin 2A4-49 engine, it was fitted with a fixed tricycle landing gear and proved to have STOL performance.

Operational history

The Model 33 prototype first flew in August 1944. The handling characteristics of the aircraft were considered satisfactory, but the Army had lost interest in the concept, despite the prototype demonstrating its performance by landing and taking off again in the courtyard of the Pentagon. Lockheed had intended to market the type as an inexpensive light aircraft on the civilian market as the Little Dipper; with the military interest having evaporated, the prototype and the partially completed second aircraft were scrapped in January 1947 for tax reasons.

Thorp, the aircraft's designer, would go on to develop the Thorp T-211 with lessons learned from the Little Dipper project.

Specifications

See also

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

Little Dipper project on YouTube

Little Dipper
1940s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1944
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Linked Hybrid. Linked Hybrid () is a building complex built in Beijing, China designed by Steven Holl Architects. It is recognized for its environmental design and uses geo-thermal wells for cooling and heating. Linked Hybrid has won several awards such as the Best Tall Building Overall Award by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 2009.

Located near the old city wall, it was designed as a pedestrian-oriented combination of public and private space that encourages the use of shared resources and reduces the need for wasteful modes of transit.

Features
Linked Hybrid was built from 2003 to 2009. It has over 2500 inhabitants. It contains 750 apartments, commercial areas, parking, hotel, cinema, and educational facilities including a kindergarten and Montessori school.

Sustainable Aspects
Linked Hybrid's ground source heat pump system shoulders 70% of the complex's yearly heating and cooling load. The system consists of 655 geothermal wells, 100 meters below the basement foundation. The underground wells have taken the place of above-ground space normally needed for cooling towers, increasing available green areas, minimizing noise pollution and significantly reducing the  emissions created by traditional heating/cooling methods.

Linked Hybrid makes use of a technique called displacement ventilation, in which air that is slightly below desired temperature in a room is released from the floor. The cooler air displaces the warmer air, causing it to be released from the room and resulting in a cooler overall space and a fresh breathing environment.

Awards
 Popular Science Engineering Award for Largest Geothermal Housing Complex, USA, 2006
 AIA New York Chapter Sustainable Design Award, USA, 2008
 CTBUH 2009 Best Tall Building Overall and Asia & Australasia, USA
 CTBUH 2009 Best Tall Building Overall
 Architectural Record China, "Good Design is Good Business" Award for Best Residential Project, 2010

References

External links 
 Linked Hybrid on Steven Holl Architects website
 Linked Hybrid on mapolis.com

Buildings and structures in Beijing
Steven Holl buildings
Apartment buildings in China
Residential buildings completed in 2009
Professional Pilot. Professional Pilot (or ProPilot) is a monthly aerospace publication produced in the United States focusing on business aviation, including issues affecting pilots, managers and dispatchers. Editorial content includes pilot technique, airmanship, operations, weather, reader surveys, helicopters, airplanes and avionics.

History and profile
ProPilot was started in 1967. The magazine is published monthly by Queensmith Communications Corporation and is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

ProPilot is known in the business aviation industry for its annual PRASE (Preferences Regarding Aviation Services and Equipment) survey.

References

External links
 Professional Pilot Magazine's Web site.

Monthly magazines published in the United States
Aviation magazines
English-language magazines
Magazines established in 1967
Magazines published in Virginia
Armoured Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle. The Armoured Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle (AERV) is an Indian military engineering vehicle developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in coordination with C-TEC, as per General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQRs) of the Indian Army for enabling the combat engineers to conduct recce operations.

Development 
AERV is manufactured by Ordnance Factory Medak, now comes under Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVANI). The AERV is based on BMP-2 Sarath's hull (license produced variant of Russian BMP-2) and is designed to carry out terrestrial and riverbed survey to facilitate construction of assault bridges across water obstacles in both offensive and defensive operations in plains, desert and riverine terrain.  It has no gun and is fitted with specialized equipment, including an echo-sounder, a water current meter, a laser range finder and GPS. On the left rear of the hull, a marking system with 40 rods is fitted.

AERV is developed by Vehicle Research and Development Establishment (VRDE) and Research & Development Establishment (Engineers). While Bharat Electronics is manufacturing 14 major electronics and sensors.

Operational history 
On 22 December 2021, Indian Army Corps of Engineers formally inducted AERV in Pune. Indian Army ordered 53 units of AERV that upon induction will be deployed on the Western front.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20131116233034/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Galleries/Mod/Logistics/Engineers/0616.jpg.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061033/http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/Hindi/dpi/combat.htm
 http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Military-Vehicles-and-Logistics/Armoured-Engineer-Reconnaissance-Vehicle-AERV-India.html

Military vehicles of India
Military engineering vehicles
Alexander Zenzes. Vizeflugmeister Alexander Zenzes (10 July 1898–September 1980) IC was a German World War I flying ace. He was a German naval pilot credited with 19 confirmed aerial victories.

After World War I, he gained a Doctorate in Engineering. In 1926, he moved to the United States. Although he became a naturalized citizen, in 1942 the Federal Bureau of Investigation suspected him of being a subversive.

Early life
Alexander Zenzes was born on 10 July 1898 in Chemnitz, Saxony.

World War I service
There is no information about him until he appeared on the rolls of Marine Flieger Jagdstaffel II by scoring his first aerial victory on 5 June 1918. He had run his total to six by the end of the month. He was awarded the Iron Cross First Class during the summer. On 22 July 1918, he was wounded by anti-aircraft fire. On 30 July, he was promoted to Vizeflugmeister. Two days later, on 1 August, he received more serious wounds that kept him out of action until September. Upon his return, he would score ten victories in October 1918 alone, running his total to at least 19 confirmed victories.

Postwar life
Immediately postwar, Zenzes would serve in Gotthard Sachsenberg's Marine Freikorps, battling the communist insurgents.

During the early 1920s, Zenzes earned a Ph.D in Engineering. In 1926, he moved to the United States. In 1929, he applied for citizenship; he became a naturalized American in 1934. He lived in San Francisco until World War II. He worked as a clerk and a sales manager while conducting chemical research. By 1942, the Federal Bureau of Investigation suspected him of being a German agent carrying out subversion in Mexico.

He was last heard of living in New York City in the 1950s.

He died in September 1980, and was buried in Middle Village, New York.

External links
Website forum with further details and speculations on his life: http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52334&highlight=alexander+zenses

Sources of information

References

 Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914–1918. Norman Franks, Frank W. Bailey, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1993. , .

1898 births
1980 deaths
German World War I flying aces
Imperial German Navy personnel of World War I
Military personnel from Chemnitz
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class
Mitsubishi K7M. The Mitsubishi K7M (or Mitsubishi Ka-18) was a 1930s Japanese experimental crew trainer built by Mitsubishi for the Imperial Japanese Navy to replace the K3M.

Design and development
The K7M was a cantilever high-wing monoplane with a cabin for five students and two instructors, and was of metal construction, with fabric-covered outer wings. The K7M was powered by two 340 hp (254 kW) Gasuden Tempu radial piston engines. The Navy decided the twin-engined type was too costly to replace the single-engined K3M and the type was not developed further, the two prototypes did enter service as trainers with the designation K7M1.

Operators

 Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service

Specifications

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

1930s Japanese military trainer aircraft
K7M
Morane-Saulnier Epervier. The Morane-Saulnier MS.1500 Épervier (en: Sparrowhawk) was a 1950s French two-seat ground attack and reconnaissance aircraft. Designed and built by Morane-Saulnier to meet a French Air Force requirement, it did not enter production.

Development
Designed to meet a requirement for a tactical reconnaissance and counter-insurgency aircraft for use by the French Air Force in Algeria the Epervier was a tandem two-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane. Powered by a ) Turbomeca Bastan turboprop the MS.1500 had a fixed tailwheel landing gear. The prototype first flew on the 12 May 1958 powered by a ) Turbomeca Marcadau turboprop.  A second prototype was built but the type did not enter production.

Specifications (Epervier with Bastan engine)

References

Bibliography

Further reading

1950s French attack aircraft
Epervier
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Single-engined turboprop aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1958
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
List of space companies and facilities in Virginia. The following are space-related agencies, companies, and facilities in Virginia.

Northern Virginia

Government agencies
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Space Office

Government contractors
Computer Sciences Corporation
GeoEye
Northrop Grumman 
Orbital Sciences Corporation
SAIC
t/Space

Civilian companies
Iridium Communications
SkyTerra
Space Adventures
SpaceQuest, Ltd.
TerreStar Corporation
Transmitter Location Systems

Hampton Roads

Government installations
NASA Langley Research Center
NASA Wallops Flight Facility

Commercial installations
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS)

See also
List of companies headquartered in Northern Virginia
List of federal agencies in Northern Virginia

Virginia
Companies based in Virginia
Virginia-related lists
Spurious tone. In electronics (radio in particular), a spurious tone (also known as an interfering tone, a continuous tone or a spur) denotes a tone in an electronic circuit which interferes with a signal and is often masked underneath that signal. Spurious tones are any tones other than a fundamental tone or its harmonics. They also include tones generated within the back-to-back connected transmit and receive terminal or channel units, when the fundamental is applied to the transmit terminal or channel-unit input.

References

External links

 

Electronic engineering
Radio technology
Noise (electronics)
John S. Thackrah. John S. Thackrah was United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions) in 2007–2008.

Biography
Thackrah attended the University of Delaware, where he received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering. He received an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

In 1979, Thackrah joined United Technologies Corporation's Pratt & Whitney Division, where he worked in project and test engineering. He later worked in program management and model management and commercial flight test activities. He then became president of a Pratt & Whitney joint venture. Thackrah later went on to serve in a series of executive positions, culminating in vice president of commercial products. He then became vice president of UTC's Otis Elevator Company division, later returning to Pratt & Whitney as vice president of aftermarket services, and later serving as vice president and general manager of one of its strategic business units.

On April 18, 2005, Thackrah was sworn in as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget of the United States Department of the Navy. In this capacity, he was responsible for all of the department's administrative matters, annual budget preparation, and human resource management, and served as chief of staff for the 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions), who was John J. Young Jr. followed by Delores M. Etter.

In 2007, President of the United States George W. Bush nominated Thackrah as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions) and he subsequently held this office from November 16, 2007, until July 27, 2008. In that capacity, he was responsible for $50 billion annually of research, development and acquisition activities, and the management of over 100,000 people.

On December 8, 2008, he became Principal Deputy of the Navy's Strategic Systems Programs.

On April 4, 2017, Thackrah returned to Pratt & Whitney as vice president of Washington operations.

References

 Biography at the United States Navy website
 Strategic Systems Programs profile of Thackrah

United States Assistant Secretaries of the Navy
Living people
University of Delaware alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
George W. Bush administration personnel
Year of birth missing (living people)
VS-PLUS. VS-PLUS is a control method for road intersections controlled by traffic lights. The traffic lights are connected to a controller where VS-PLUS runs as a separate process.

The software is best suited for traffic-actuated control of an intersection. In order to detect the traffic, a sufficient number of detectors must be connected to the controller. The detector signals are typically scanned 10 times per second.

The software is suited as well for implementing public transport priority systems.

VS-PLUS does not provide a programming environment but allows the traffic engineer to parametrize the control. It uses an abstraction model for the necessary parameters such as "desired priority" that can be set as a parameter. VS-PLUS supports the North American NEMA software standard for intersection control.

Due to the parametrization capabilities the software can communicate with central traffic computers and implement their current strategy by parameter changes. This enables re-coordination of a Green Wave still keeping the local optimizations.

During development and test of the parameters, the control can be simulated on a PC using a microscopic traffic simulator (as TSIS-CORSIM, TransModeler, VISSIM, Aimsun Next, or Paramics).

See also 
 Traffic engineering
 Road traffic control

External links 
 VS-PLUS official website

Traffic signals
Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman (general). Mahbubur Rahman is a retired lieutenant general of the Bangladesh Army who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army from May 1996 to December 1997. He was graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in civil engineering. He was commissioned in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers from 17 special course on 2 March 1964.

Early life and education
He was born in Biral Upazila, Dinajpur District. He passed his matriculation from Dinajpur Zila School in 1956. He completed his intermediate from Dhaka College. In 1963 he completed his B.Sc in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Later he joined the Pakistan Army.

Military career
He was commissioned in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers from 17 Special Course on 2 March 1964.

Politics
He joined Bangladesh Nationalist Party after retirement from Bangladesh Army. He is a former standing committee member of BNP. In the 8th National Parliament election in 2001, he was elected as a member of parliament from Dinajpur-2 constituency on the nomination of BNP. He left BNP in 2019.

References 

Living people
Chiefs of Army Staff, Bangladesh
Bangladeshi generals
8th Jatiya Sangsad members
Year of birth missing (living people)

Engineers in Chief of the Bangladesh Army
Nord 2100 Norazur. The Nord 2100 Norazur was a 1940s French military transport monoplane designed and built at Courbevoie near Paris by SNCAN.

Design and development
The Norazur was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear. Powered by two wing-mounted Potez piston engines in pusher configuration. It had an enclosed cabin for ten passengers or freight.

Designed to meet a post-war requirement for a light transport and training aircraft the Norazur first flew at Les Mureaux on 30 April 1947. An additional prototype with  Béarn 6D-07 engines is believed to have been built. With other similar designs available the type did not enter production.

Variants
N2100
Prototype light transport with two  Potez 8D-03 inverted, air-cooled V-8 piston engines in pusher configuration, one built.
N2101
Prototype with alternate  Béarn 6D-07 inverted, air-cooled  V-6 piston engines in pusher configuration, believed to have been built.
N2102
Projected variant with two SNECMA 12S engines in tractor configuration.

Specifications

Notes

Bibliography

Photo of N-2100

1940s French military transport aircraft
Norazur
Twin piston-engined pusher aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1947
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear