omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
List of named minor planets: W. 

W 

 
 
 
 1704 Wachmann
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1695 Walbeck
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 877 Walküre
 
 
 1153 Wallenbergia
 2114 Wallenquist
 
 
 987 Wallia
 
 
 3198 Wallonia
 256 Walpurga
 1946 Walraven
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 890 Waltraut
 
 
 
 
 1057 Wanda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 886 Washingtonia
 
 5756 Wassenbergh
 4765 Wasserburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1822 Waterman
 
 
 
 729 Watsonia
 
 
 7784 Watterson
 1798 Watts
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4085 Weir
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1721 Wells
 
 
 3682 Welther
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15268 Wendelinefroger
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 621 Werdandi
 
 226 Weringia
 
 
 
 1302 Werra
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2017 Wesson
 2022 West
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 930 Westphalia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1940 Whipple
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2301 Whitford
 
 
 
 
 
 
 931 Whittemora
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 274301 Wikipedia
 
 
 
 
 1941 Wild
 
 
 9999 Wiles
 
 
 
 392 Wilhelmina
 
 
 
 
 
 1688 Wilkens
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1763 Williams
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 51829 Williemccool
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23712 Willpatrick
 
 
 4015 Wilson-Harrington
 
 
 
 
 
 747 Winchester
 
 
 
 1556 Wingolfia
 1575 Winifred
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2044 Wirt
 
 3402 Wisdom
 717 Wisibada
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2732 Witt
 
 
 
 
 
 852 Wladilena
 
 
 
 
 
 4608 Wodehouse
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 827 Wolfiana
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1660 Wood
 13732 Woodall
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 690 Wratislavia
 
 
 1747 Wright
 
 1765 Wrubel
 
 2752 Wu Chien-Shiung

See also 
 List of minor planet discoverers
 List of observatory codes

References 

Lists of minor planets by name
DeSoto Lake (Iowa–Nebraska). DeSoto Lake is a lake within DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Harrison and Pottawattamie counties, Iowa and Washington County, Nebraska. The  lake has a maximum depth of . Though it has the appearance of a natural lake it is man-made, created from a channel leading from the Missouri River in 1958.

History
The lake was once merely a bend of the same name along the Missouri River. In 1865, the steamboat Bertrand sank at DeSoto Bend. It was later excavated in 1968. In 1958, the Army Corps of Engineers engineered a new 2-mile channel to bypass the 8-mile bend, creating a new lake. Despite being man-made, it has the appearance of a natural lake. The lake creation was part of the overall development of the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge.

Wildlife
The lake is home to fish species such as black crappie, bluegill, channel catfish, flathead catfish, freshwater drum, largemouth bass, paddlefish, river carpsucker, sauger, walleye, white bass and yellow bass. Sport fishing on the lake is practiced, but subject to restrictions laid out by the states of Iowa and Nebraska. Birds found on the lake include wood ducks, geese (including snow geese), herons, and plovers.

References

External links

Lakes of Iowa
Lakes of Nebraska
Geography of Harrison County, Iowa
Geography of Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Geography of Washington County, Nebraska
Lakshmi Narain College of Technology, Jabalpur. Lakshmi Narain College of Technology (LNCT), Jabalpur is a higher-education institute in the city of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. Established in 2008, the college provides courses in engineering and management. LNCT Jabalpur is located on the NH-45 National Highway, near the Narmada River.

Lakshmi Narain Group
The institute is run by the Lakshmi Narain Group, which established of the first private engineering institute in Madhya Pradesh in Bhopal. The group derives its name from the Hindu deities, Lakshmi Narayan. It operates a university, schools, colleges, hospitals and 24 other educational and research institutions in five cities of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Academics
The college offers diploma, bachelor's and master's degree courses in engineering, technology and management. It is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education in New Delhi, and recognised by the Directorate of Technical Education of Madhya Pradesh. It is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya in Bhopal, the State Technological University of Madhya Pradesh, for its engineering courses, and to Rani Durgavati University in Jabalpur for its management courses.

References

External links 
 LNCT Jabalpur website

2008 establishments in Madhya Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 2008
Colleges in India
Engineering colleges in Madhya Pradesh
Education in Jabalpur
CubCrafters CC18-180 Top Cub. The CubCrafters CC18-180 Top Cub is an American light aircraft designed and produced by CubCrafters of Yakima, Washington, introduced in 2004. The aircraft is type certified and supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

The design is based on the 1949 vintage Piper PA-18 Super Cub.

Design and development
The CC18-180 Top Cub was designed to comply with the FAR 23 certification rules. It features a strut-braced high-wing, an enclosed cockpit with two-seats-in-tandem accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from welded 4130 steel tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing has an area of  and mounts flaps. Standard engines available are the  Lycoming O-360-C4P or O-360-C1G and the  Superior O-360-A3A2 four-stroke powerplants.

The aircraft can be flown on wheels, tundra tires, skis or amphibious floats. Belly pods are available to increase cargo and fuel capacity.

The design was initially type certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration on 16 December 2004. The  aircraft was certified by Transport Canada on 23 July 2008 and achieved Australian certification in August 2008.

In July 2015 CubCrafters sold the type certificate for the CC18 to the Liaoning Cub Aircraft Corporation of China. Cub Crafters then licensed the design back so they could produce the aircraft for the non-Chinese market. The type certificate was transferred to a holding company, Topcub Aircraft, Inc, on August 13, 2015. The Liaoning Cub Aircraft Corporation plans to produce the design in China for flight training, aerial photography, mapping, agriculture and personal use.

Operational history
Reviewer Marino Boric described the design in a 2015 review saying, "the Top Cub is an ideal choice for any adventure-seeking pilot."

By February 2017, 74 examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and three with Transport Canada.

Variants
CC18-180
Version type certified by the US FAA on 16 December 2004 for day and night, Visual Flight Rules (VFR).
CC18-180A
Version type certified by the US FAA on 1 July 2005 for day VFR. Only one built.

Specifications (CC18-180 Top Cub)

References

External links

CC18-180
2000s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Plains & Eastern Clean Line. Plains & Eastern Clean Line was a proposed , 4,000 MW long-distance HVDC transmission line to bring wind power in Oklahoma to consumers in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States via the existing Tennessee Valley Authority grid. It would have termini at Guymon, Oklahoma and northeast of Memphis, Tennessee and an intermediate converter station in Pope County, Arkansas. The U.S. Department of Energy is a partner in the development,  its first exercise of section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, under which Congress authorized the department to promote electric transmission for clean energy. The project has been credited with bringing renewable energy to part of the country that previously had not had access.

The HVDC line to be built by a division of General Electric has been called the beginning of a North American super grid.

In late December 2017, Clean Line announced the sale of the Oklahoma portion of the Plains and Eastern to NextEra.  The sale consisted of a transfer of right-of-way easements to NextEra. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy assailed TVA for killing the project.

References

HVDC transmission lines
Proposed electric power transmission systems
Proposed electric power infrastructure in the United States
Tennessee Valley Authority
NextEra Energy
John Tarbell. Not to be confused American military officer and Mississippi Supreme Court judge Jonathan Tarbell

John M. Tarbell is an American biomedical engineer, currently a CUNY and Wallace Coulter Distinguished Professor at City College of New York.

He graduated from Rutgers University, and University of Delaware.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
City College of New York faculty
21st-century American engineers
Rutgers University alumni
University of Delaware alumni
Canon X-07. Canon X-07 is one of the first personal computers available in France manufactured by Canon.
This is a laptop (or rather hand-held) based around the NSC800 (compatible with Z80) shipping Microsoft BASIC.

The specifications included:
 memory extensions or independent IC card
 parallel and serial port with an infrared extension X-721
 X-711 thermal printer or plotter 4-color X-710 or standard // printer.
 ROM card software (spreadsheet, monitor ...)
 X-720 video interface for connection to a TV
 save to cassette
 Size: 30x30x11cm

References 

Computing by computer model
Canon computers
Personal computers
Computer-related introductions in 1983
Robert Kenedi. Prof Robert Maximilian Kenedi FRSE (1921-1998) was a Hungarian-born engineer and bioengineer.

Life
He was born in Hungary on 19 March 1921.

In 1938 he left Hungary to study in Britain, choosing the Royal Technical College in Glasgow where he studied civil engineering, receiving his degree (BSc) from Glasgow University in 1941.
As a foreign national from an enemy country, the Second World War eventually impacted upon him. He was obliged to serve two years within the Auxiliary War Service. This was somewhat similar to being a prisoner of war but is likely to have involved unpaid farm labour, rather than internment. Following appeal he was released from these duties in 1943. He then returned to the Royal Technical College to lecture in Civil and Mechanical Engineering. During his first ten years he mainly worked on studies on the strength of materials and strain gauge technology, especially in thin-walled materials. During this period he developed a series of highly used Design Codes for the British steel industry, allowing great refinement of sections. The university awarded him a doctorate (PhD) in 1949.

In the 1950s he combined forces with Prof Tom Gibson a Glasgow plastic surgeon, to apply his engineering knowledge to human cell structure. They began an internationally renowned programme of biological tissue mechanics. In 1963, with the help of a large grant from the British Medical Research Council, he founded the Bioengineering Unit at Strathclyde University. The university appointed Kenedi a professorship and made him Head of the unit. A further grant from the Wolfson Foundation allowed the creation of the Wolfson Centre within the unit. The unit then broadened its range of study, involving prosthetics and artificial organs. This led to the creation of the National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Strathclyde.
In 1965 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Anthony Elliot Ritchie, Peter Pauson, Donald Pack, and Adam Tomson.

In 1980 he left Strathclyde to go to Hong Kong Polytechnic for four years.

In 1982 he was awarded the Herbert R Lissner Biomedical Engineering Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

He died at home in Milngavie on 7 September 1998. He was survived by his wife Jean.

Publications

Perspectives in Biomedical Engineering (1973)

References

1921 births
1998 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Hungarian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Direct Fly ArGO. The Direct Fly ArGO is a Czech ultralight and light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Direct Fly sro of Hluk, introduced at the Blois fly-in show in France, in 2011. When it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The ArGO was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) microlight rules and US light-sport aircraft (LSA) rules, with different versions at different gross weights for each category. It features a strut-braced high-wing, an enclosed cabin with two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration accessed by doors, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing covered in aluminum sheet. The flying surfaces are made from aluminum sheet. Its  span wing has an area of  and mounts Fowler flaps. Standard engines available are the  Rotax 912UL and the  Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplants.

As of February 2017, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.

Variants
arGO ULL
Model with a gross weight of  for the FAI microlight category.
arGO LSA/ELSA
Model with a gross weight of  for the US LSA category.

Specifications (ArGO ULL)

References

External links
Official website

ArGO
2010s Czech ultralight aircraft
Light-sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Marchetti dilatometer test. Marchetti dilatometer test or flat dilatometer, is a type of dilatometer commonly designated by DMT.

It was created by Silvano Marchetti (1980) and is one of the most versatile tools for soil characterization, namely loose to medium compacted granular soils and soft to medium clays, or even stiffer if a good reaction system is provided. The main reasons for its usefulness deriving geotechnical parameters are related to the simplicity and the speed of execution, generating continuous data profiles of high accuracy and reproducibility.

References

Measuring instruments
Soil mechanics
VT Halter Marine. VT Halter Marine, Inc. was a shipbuilding company and an American subsidiary of ST Engineering. It was located in Pascagoula, Mississippi. It specialized in ship design and construction and served both public and private clients, including the United States Department of Defense.

History 
Harold Halter and Jimmy Dubuisson started the original company known as Halter Marine in 1956 in New Orleans; their first built vessel was a 26-foot pleasure boat. The original company would grow to employ more than 4,000 people at its height, but the decline of the offshore oil industry led Halter to sell the company to Trinity Industries in 1983, where it became part of Trinity Marine Group.
In September 1996, Trinity spun off several bluewater shipyard assets as a separate company using the name Halter Marine Group, Inc. Friede Goldman International bought Halter Marine Group in 1999. The company was sold again to ST Engineering (Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd) in 2003, where it began operating under the name VT Halter Marine Inc. 

In 2019, VT Halter was awarded a $1.9 billion contract by the United States Coast Guard for the design and construction of new Polar Security Cutter heavy icebreakers.

In November 2022, Bollinger Shipyards agreed to buy Halter Marine and the adjacent ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore for $15 million from parent ST Engineering North America. The newly acquired shipyards was renamed to Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding and Bollinger Mississippi Repair respectively.

Safety

While working on an $87 million contract with the United States Navy to build the 350-foot survey vessel USNS Maury, renamed Marie Tharp in 2016, in 2009, unsafe working conditions led to an explosion that killed two employees and injured five others. The company was fined $1.32 million by the United States Department of Labor for 17 willful and 11 serious violations, including willfully exposing workers to toxic fumes in a confined space. According to Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, the explosion "was a horrific and preventable situation. VT Halter Marine was aware of the hazards and knowingly and willfully sent workers into a confined space with an explosive and toxic atmosphere."

See also 
 Ambassador MK III missile boat

References 

Companies based in Mississippi
American shipbuilders
Defence companies of Singapore
Former defense companies of the United States
Industrial fires and explosions in the United States
Crewe Gresty Lane TMD. Crewe Gresty Lane TMD (officially Gresty Bridge TMD) is a traction maintenance depot in Crewe, Cheshire, England. The depot is situated on the southern side of the line to Shrewsbury.

History
The site was originally used by the Great Western Railway, and opened around 1905 as a wagon works. The present depot was opened by Direct Rail Services (DRS) in 2007.

Present
The depot is used for servicing the DRS fleet of diesel locomotives, including Classes 37, 47 and 66.

References

Sources

Railway depots in England
Buildings and structures in Crewe
Rail transport in Cheshire
Materially engineered artificial pollinators. Materially engineered artificial pollinators are experimental radiowave-controlled micro-drones that use ionic liquid gels for artificial pollination without living insects.

The researchers who are developing this technology published their findings in the 9 February issue of the journal Chem and hope that their research will help counter the problems caused by declining honeybee populations, meeting the modern agricultural demands of colonies and benefit farmers.

Early history
In 2007 Eijiro Miyako, chemist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Nanomaterial Research Institute, worked to make liquids that could be used as electrical conductors. One of his attempts generated a sticky gel, which was at the time considered a failure. After 8 years this gel was found during a lab cleanup. The researchers were astonished that it had not degraded, retaining its viscosity. Svetlana Chechetka, colleague of Miyako, notes that "conventional gels are mainly made of water and can't be used for a long time, so we decided to use this material for research". Inspired by concerns over honeybees and news reports on robotic insects, Miyako decided to investigate whether the gel could be used to pick up pollen. Miyako collected ants from near his institute, placed a droplet of the gel on some of them and let them wander around for a while in a box of tulips. The ants with the gel on them had more pollen than those without. Separate feet experiments with houseflies discovered a different phenomenon: the gel produces a camouflage effect, changing colour in response to various light sources, which could be used to help artificial pollinators avoid predators.

Drone tests
After these early insect successes, Miyako wanted to move on to drones. He settled on a smaller model that could fly around through flower fields the way a bee does, and simulated the bee's hairy skin by using horse hair coated with the gel. The team flew the 4 × 4 cm sized mechanical bees over pink-leaved Japanese lilies (Lilium japonicum), letting them absorb the pollen.  The drones were then flown to a second flower, where grains were deposited to artificially pollinate the plants, causing them to begin the process of generating seeds. This did not occur with control drones (without the gel and hair).

Miyako states that "the findings, which will have applications for agriculture and robotics, among others, could lead to the development of artificial pollinators and help counter the problems caused by declining honeybee populations", that they "believe that robotic pollinators could be trained to learn pollination paths using global positioning systems and artificial intelligence" and that the concept demonstrated "should be expandable to other research areas, including chemical composites, agriculture, biomimetic science, and robotics".

See also 
 RoboBee
 Pollinator decline
 Technological fix

References

External links
 

2017 robots
Flying robots
Micro robots
Pollination
Stephen Jacobsen. Stephen Charles Jacobsen (1940–2016) was an American bioengineer, a pioneer in his field, specifically in developing medical devices and tools, including an artificial kidney and an exoskeleton, and was Distinguished Professor at University of Utah. He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine.

Jacobsen founded Sarcos, a technological company producing robots and microelectromechanical systems, in 1983.

References

1940 births
2016 deaths
University of Utah faculty
American bioengineers
American roboticists
Scientists from Salt Lake City
Businesspeople from Salt Lake City
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
University of Utah alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
20th-century American businesspeople
A. Emin Aktan. Ahmet Emin Aktan is an American engineer, focusing in health monitoring, currently the John Roebling Professor of Infrastructure Studies at Drexel University. He is an Honorary Professor at Muğla University.

Education
Post-Doctoral Research in Earthquake-Structural Engineering at University of California, Berkeley (1979–1984)
Ph.D. in Earthquake Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1970–1973)
B.S. (1967) and M.Sc. (1968) in Civil/Structural Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Drexel University faculty
21st-century American engineers
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Oman Rail. Oman Rail is a railway company responsible for rail transport in Oman. It is owned and operated by the Omani Ministry of Transport. The company is based in Al Qurum, Muscat.

History
The company was founded in June 2014. Oman Rail will be responsible for developing the rail network in the country. Currently Oman Rail intends to link Buraimi on the UAE border with Sohar, as part of the proposed Gulf Railway. The first section was announced to be a , double-track, standard-gauge line with  axle loads and a loading gauge sufficient to accommodate double-stack container trains. Diesel locomotives will run on the line initially, but the plans will provide an option for future electrification.

The next phase of Oman's railway project will be built in two stages. First, an  section will connect the previous line from Hafeet to Ibri. This will be then be extended by  from Ibri to the new economic zone that is proposed to be built. Future plans include extending the network beyond Al Dhahirah, traversing vast expanses of desert in central Oman via Ghabah to Haima, with a southward branch to Al Duqm (and later to Mazyounah on the Yemeni border), and with another branch to Salalah. The final phase of the rail network envisions a south–north line Amal via Al Duqm to Muscat and Sohar.

Passenger trains will operate on the network at speeds of , while freight trains will be limited to a speed of .

Nabil Al Bimani, Group Chief, Ports and Free Zones at Asyad Groups, stated that the first railway line in Oman would be a cargo line connecting Mangi Al-Shuwaimeh and Al-Duqm linking metal production fields with manufacturers and export sites.

In April 2024, Oman Rail and the UAE's Etihad Rail announced a new joint venture, Hafeet Rail, that will construct  of new railway to connect Abu Dhabi, UAE with Sohar, Oman.

References

External links

 Official website

2014 establishments in Oman
Railway companies established in 2014
Companies based in Muscat, Oman
Rail transport in Oman
Railway infrastructure companies