omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
William Bennett (Australian engineer). William Christopher Bennett (4 July 1824 – 29 September 1889) was an Irish born surveyor and engineer active in colonial Australia, Commissioner and Engineer-in-Chief for Roads and Bridges in New South Wales.

Early life
Bennett was born in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest son of Ignatius Bennett, a traffic manager, and his wife Alicia, née Garvey.
Bennett was employed as a pupil on various territorial and railway surveys and other works in Ireland from 1840 to 1845, and as assistant engineer in charge of drainage works, under the Board of Public Works in Ireland, from 1845 to 1852.

Surveyor
During 1852-3 Bennett was employed in reporting on the navigation of the Rhone and Saône, and making surveys and reports on the navigation of the Magdalena River, with connecting canals, roads or railways, in New Grenada. Bennett was engaged on the International (French, American and English) Ship Canal Survey at the Darién Gap, in 1854, having charge of the English survey on the Pacific side in the absence of Mr. Forde, M.I.C.E., on which occasion Bennett received the thanks of the American Government for having, in conjunction with Lieut. Forsythe and a party from H.M.S. Virago, relieved Lieut. Isaac Strain, United States navy, and his missing exploring party, at no small personal risk.

Career in Australia
At the end of 1854 Bennett proceeded, viâ New Zealand, to New South Wales, and was for about ten months attached to the Survey Department as an assistant surveyor. In April 1856 he was appointed assistant engineer to the Commission for the Sewerage and Water Supply of Sydney; was engaged in the Railway Department, New South Wales, from January to September 1857, and was then transferred to the Department of Roads, which, as assistant engineer, and ultimately as engineer, he assisted Captain (afterwards Colonel) Ben Hay Martindale, C.B., R.E., in organising. Bennett left the colony for Europe in January 1861, and on his return he was appointed, in November 1862, commissioner and engineering-chief for roads, New South Wales, which office he occupied until a short time before his death. Bennett designed the Prince Alfred Bridge over the Murrumbidgee River, and was engineer for the Denison Bridge over the Macquarie River, New South Wales. Bennett was also occasionally employed on the western goldfields and narrow gauge railways, the water supply of Sydney, and the drainage of the Hunter River. Bennett died on 29 September 1889, at the age of sixty-five in St Leonards, New South Wales.

References

1824 births
1889 deaths
Irish emigrants to colonial Australia
Australian civil engineers
Irish surveyors
Flightpath (disambiguation). Flightpath or trajectory is the path of a moving object.

Flightpath or flight path may also refer to:
 Flight path, an airplane route
 Flightpath (marketing agency), a New York-based digital creative agency
 FlightPath (software), an academic advising software
 Flight Path Learning Center
 FlightPathTV, a television show
 Flight Path (album), an album by Sphere
 "Flight Path", a 1971 episode of TV series UFO
Flight Path (memoir), a 2017 memoir by Hannah Palmer

See also 
 Flight Paths, an album by The Paradise Motel
 Airway (disambiguation)
 Flight plan (disambiguation)
 Flyway (disambiguation)
 Flyway for birds
Human magnetism. Human magnetism is a popular name for the supposed ability of some humans to attract various objects to their skin. People alleged to have such an ability are often called human magnets. Although metal objects are the most prevalent material of attraction, some "human magnets" are also able to stick other types of materials to their skin, such as glass, porcelain, wood or plastic as well as metals with no ferromagnetic properties, such as brass and aluminium. However, none of the recorded claims of human magnetism corresponds with the physics of magnetism.

Selected claimed human magnets 
 Aurel Răileanu from Romania, also known as "Mr. Magnet"; is said to be the strongest human magnet
 Etibar Elchyev from Georgia, Guinness World Record holder for most spoons on a human body
 Ivan Stoiljkovic, a boy from Croatia
 Liew Thow Lin, known as Mr. Magnetic Man
Dalibor Jablanović from Serbia, Guinness World Record holder for most spoons on a human face
Arun Raikar from India, who could lift  of metal upon his body
Agnė Kulitaitė from Lithuania is known to hold metal objects on her forehead or even cheeks.

Explanations 
Many of the people who can adhere objects to their body can do so not only with metal but also other materials. That would suggest that the phenomenon cannot be explained by magnetism and uses a different kind of physical effect. Skeptic Benjamin Radford has used a compass to check the magnetic field of a person that claimed to be a human magnet. He concluded that person did not produce magnetic fields. He also noted that those people usually have smooth and hairless skin and lean back slightly while sticking objects, which would not be necessary if they possessed magnetic powers. Many scientists and proponents of science, including James Randi, have explained this ability by friction and sticky skin; to prove that, Randi has demonstrated that human magnets lose their powers when they are covered in talc.

See also 
 Animal magnetism
 Biomagnetism
 Magnetoception
 Sherri Tenpenny, who falsely claimed the COVID-19 vaccine turns people into human magnets

References 

Magnetism
Paranormal hoaxes
Parapsychology
Gold cyanidation in Romania. Gold cyanidation is a chemical process for extracting gold from low-grade ore. Used in Romania for decades, the process came into debate following the 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill and proposal of the Roșia Montană Project, which would create the largest operation for gold extraction using cyanides in Europe.

Exploitation projects
Currently, there is no exploitation project active, but there is one that has its operations suspended temporarily (Baia Mare) and there are two proposed projects (Roșia Montană and Certej). Previously, there were also exploitations in Baia de Arieș (Alba County), Sasar, Suior, Cavnic, Băița, Băiuț (Maramureș County).

There are some ongoing explorations projects operated by Eldorado Gold in Brad, Deva and Muncel (Hunedoara County), in addition to the company's new intended exploitation in Certej.

Ban attempts
In 2005, a number of 12 Greater Romania Party Senators (among which Gheorghe Funar) proposed a law project which banned the usage of cyanides for gold and silver extraction in Roșia Montană. The law was rejected in the Senate in November 2005 and in the Chamber of Deputies in March 2006. The government also opposed it arguing that the law referred to a special case.

A year later, Funar and Peter Eckstein of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, usually bitter rivals in the political scene of Cluj, created a new law which was more general and avoided to talk about Roșia Montană. The project was nevertheless rejected in the autumn of 2008, meeting the opposition of the Democratic-Liberal Party.

A third attempt to ban gold cyanidation was registered in the Senate in June 2013, proposed by non-affiliated deputy Remus Cernea, being supported by other 38 senators and deputies of all parties, many of which from the government coalition. The only MP from the Democratic-Liberal Party to support the law was the deputy Teodor Paleologu.

Disasters
The 1971 Certej dam failure led to the deaths of 89 people after a failure of the dam of the tailings pond.

The 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill occurred when a dam (operated by Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government) holding 100,000 tonnes of cyanide-contaminated tailings spilled into the Someș River and from there into the Tisza and Danube. The spill created a large-scale environmental disaster that has been called the worst environmental disaster in Europe since the Chernobyl disaster.

References

Gold mining in Romania
Vax (disambiguation). Vax or VAX is a computing instruction set architecture by DEC.

VAX or Vax may also refer to:

 VAX (band), a musical band co-founded by Alex P
 Vax (brand), Vax UK Ltd, a floorcare brand, including vacuum cleaners
 V Air, a low-cost carrier based in Taiwan, ICAO code VAX
 Vax'ildan ("Vax"), a fictional half-elven rogue / paladin / druid in the D&D web series Critical Role
 Clipping of vaccine

See also

 VAX Unit of Performance or VUP, an obsolete measurement of computer performance
 VAXELN, a real-time operating system for the VAX architecture.
 Andrew Vachss (born 1942), American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths
 E*vax, American electronic music artist and half of New York based indie/electronic band Ratatat
 Anti-vax, a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated
 
 Vacs
 Vaks
 VAC (disambiguation)
 Vack
 Vak (disambiguation)
 VAQ
Mumbai-Bangalore economic corridor. The Bengaluru–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (BMIC) is a proposed economic corridor in India between Mumbai and Bangalore. The corridor is spread across the states of Karnataka and Maharashtra and passes through major cities such as Davanagere, Chitradurga, Hubli–Dharwad, Belagavi, Solapur, Kolhapur, Satara and Pune. The overall length of the corridor is around 1,000 km and covers an area of around 143,000 km2. The corridor is delineated around the existing National Highway 48 (NH48) (which connects Bangalore to Mumbai), the existing Bangalore-Mumbai railway line and the Dabhol–Bangalore Natural Gas Pipeline.

The Indian government aims to generate an investment over  from this corridor and expects it to create 2.5 million jobs.

During the India–United Kingdom summit in November 2013, the Indian and British governments agreed to undertake a joint feasibility study on the project. The DMICDC and the UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) were appointed as the nodal agencies for the project, representing the two sides respectively. The DMICDC floated a tender to appoint a consultant for the project in November 2013, awarded the contract to a joint venture between Egis India Consulting Engineers Pvt. Ltd., ile-de-France and CRISIL Risk & Infrastructure Solutions Limited on 14 February 2014. The feasibility study was financed by the Government of India.

The government has envisaged at least four new cities to boost manufacturing activity across the corridor for which the detailed plan is yet to work out.

See also
 National Industrial Corridors of India
 Amritsar–Delhi–Kolkata Industrial Corridor
 Chennai Bangalore Industrial Corridor
 Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project.                                                                                                                     
 Visakhapatnam–Chennai Industrial Corridor
 Delhi–Saharanpur–Dehradun economic corridor

References

Proposed infrastructure in Karnataka
Proposed infrastructure in Maharashtra
Economy of Maharashtra
Economy of Karnataka
Industrial corridors in India
Bogey value. In manufacturers' specifications for electronic devices, a bogey device (or bogie device) - especially a vacuum tube- is a device that has all characteristics equal to the published values, in other words, that its parameters all lie in the centre of their bell curve distributions.

Parameter value

A bogey is a published value for a parameter of an electronic component, such as a vacuum tube, that is average or typical of the devices that will be sold, and which the manufacturer is attempting to achieve. With manufacturing tolerances and variables in production, most devices produced do not exactly meet the bogey value for each parameter.

Apart from a bogey device being a theoretical device that has the given characteristics, the term can refer to a specially-selected example of a device (e.g. from a production run where care is taken to ensure each characteristic has its nominal value); for example a bogey tube could be used to calibrate tube testers and be expected to give readings in the  middle of the meter's "good" region. Hence a tube can be specified by its bogey values and suitable tolerances, and tests are based on the bogey values. For applications such as music amplifiers where the channels need to have nearly identical performance, it is desirable that components are matched and have major parameter values close to bogey.

References

Electronics manufacturing
Starling Framework. Starling is an open source game framework used to create 2D games that run both on mobile and desktop platforms. It recreates the traditional Flash display list architecture on top of accelerated graphics hardware. Several commercial games have been built with Starling, including Angry Birds Friends and Incredipede.

History 
Starling was initiated in 2011 by Adobe shortly after introducing the Stage3D API in their AIR and Flash run-time systems. Stage3D allows utilizing the GPU inside the Flash Player via a low-level API; Starling should simplify the transition for developers by providing an accompanying high-level API built on top of Stage3D.

The framework has seen rapid adoption over the years, being utilized in many games from both independent and commercial developers. It is now a part of the Adobe Gaming SDK.

Library ecosystem 
Since Starling's introduction, several Open Source libraries were published by 3rd party developers that depend on Starling and extend its functionality.
 Feathers allows the creation of light-weight user interfaces for both mobile and desktop games and applications.
 Citrus Engine is a game engine that is most popular for its Platformer starter-kit.
 Dragon Bones is a 2D skeletal animation solution, available as a plugin for Flash, exporting animations for Starling.
 StarlingPunk is designed for developing 2D Flash games, inspired by the popular FlashPunk framework.
 Flox is a Backend as a Service targeting especially Starling developers (and built by the same team).
 GameBuilder Studio is an Open Source Game Engine and visual WYSIWYG tool for creating professional cross-platform 2D games. Optimized for mobile and web using the Starling rendering engine. [Ouya Target | Platformer plugin | Isometric | Multiplayer via Plugin.IO, etc.]

See also 
Cairo
OpenFL

References

Further reading 
 Thibault Imbert: Introducing Starling, O'Reilly Media Inc., November 14, 2012, 
 Juwal Bose: Starling Game Development Essentials, Packt Publishing, December, 2013, 
 Tinic Uro (September 21, 2011) Why Starling (or any other 2D framework on top of Stage3D)?

External links 
 Official Website
 Official Support Forum
 Official Community Wiki
 Source on GitHub
 Starting with Starling  video course (free)
 Building Flash Games with Starling  video course (commercial)
 Building a Mobile App with Feathers and Starling  video course (commercial)
 How to learn Starling Framework, an extensive tutorial and overview
 http://typedarray.org/introducing-starling-js/

ActionScript
Free game engines
Video game development software
Prime Vision. Prime Vision B.V. is a Dutch company that specializes in computer vision systems and robotics for the recognition, identification and automation of sorting processes for the postal, logistics and e-commerce markets.

Headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands, Prime Vision operates globally.

The company's shareholders include PostNL - the national mail delivery company in the Netherlands - and First Dutch Innovations (FDI).

History 
In 1956 what would become Prime Vision starts life as a research department of the PTT.

A few years later, in 1961, The High Yield Character Reader (HYCR), the core technology of Prime Vision, was invented. The HYCR has been developed for capturing hand written as well as machine printed text and has found a particular niche as the basis for secondary OCR engines. In this role, Prime Vision's HYCR-based systems complement other OCRs that have been principally designed for machine printed text. With the systems working in tandem the net read rate of letters, flats and parcels is boosted significantly. HYCR is now in use throughout the world and includes various language sets, including Hebrew, Chinese and Tamil.

In 2003 KPN Research (formerly known as PTT) was acquired by TNO Companies. Additional investments prepared the company for its first sales outside the Netherlands.

One year later, TNT (now known as PostNL) acquired 60% of the shares of Prime Vision from TNO. Additional investment led to an independent entity Prime Vision BV.

The majority of the TNO Companies shares are taken over in 2017 by First Dutch Innovations who became the new shareholder of Prime Vision.

References

External links 
 

Companies based in South Holland
Technology companies established in 1956
Postal system of the Netherlands
Optical character recognition
Automatic identification and data capture
1956 establishments in the Netherlands
Polylux (overhead projector). The Polylux was an overhead projector produced in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It also functioned as a generic name for overhead projectors in the GDR. 

The Polylux was produced in the VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb: people’s enterprise) Phylatex-Physikgeräte DDR, in Frankenberg near Chemnitz (then known as Karl-Marx-Stadt). It was, amongst others, widespread in educational institutions in the GDR.  After 2004, Polylux was a registered trademark of the company Polytechnik Frankenberg GmbH, which as a successor firm of the original Polylux producer continued to produce the device. Until the Wende in 1989, 27,000 devices were produced on average each year, and were also exported to the Soviet Union. In the year 2004, 6,000 devices were still being produced.

In 2006, the enterprise closed down.

The word Polylux (from Greek and Latin, meaning "much light") originates with Erich Schöpe, a physicist and former director of the Polylux manufacturer. Today, the word enjoys cult status as a typical GDR word and is still widespread in everyday language of the East German states.

A television show produced by Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (now Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) was named after the Polylux with reference to the "enlightening" function of the device.

The body of the Polylux consisted of plastic and contained a ventilator with delayed shutdown in order to avoid a heat build-up.  The light source was a halogen light bulb for a standard line voltage.  It contained a switch for two different light intensity levels.

Originally, the lenses of the device were made out of glass.  In order to reduce the weight, lenses made of plastic were later used.  In particular, the Fresnel lens with its large surface area, on which transparencies were placed, was made out of plastic.   

German brands
Projectors
WIETC. Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as WIETC) is a Chinese construction contractor that specializes in overseas construction and engineering projects.  Based on international project revenue of $228.8 million in 2012, the company was listed among the 250 largest international contractors by the Engineering News-Record.

The company has a major presence in building key infrastructure in Congo-Brazzaville including 15 projects, according to a 2009 report.  One project is the construction of upgrades to Maya-Maya International Airport in a $160 million project.   The upgrades consisted of primarily building two modules of a new terminal for handling domestic and international traffic separately, and work on a new runway, rehabilitation of another runway, and building of a transformer sub-station.  The company works with the Congolese government in a public-private partnership to build up the national housing stock, a shortage that is one of the main concerns of poverty alleviation.

In China Safari, a book published in 2008 about China-Africa relations, the company features prominently in a chapter about Congo-Brazzaville.   The author documents a symbiotic relationship between the Congolese minister of construction and housing, Claude Alphonse N'Silou, who needed to get public goods delivered fast to win his parliamentary seat, with WIETC which was able to build infrastructure at a speed that impressed the minister.  In the book the minister heaps praise on the company in the following quote: "They come from so far away, yet look how quickly they adapt.  They live modestly, as we do, and we all get along very well with one another."

References

Government-owned companies of China
Construction and civil engineering companies of China
Companies based in Weihai
United States Department of Energy Global Energy Storage Database. The United States Department of Energy's Global Energy Storage Database (GESDB) is a free-access database of energy storage projects and policies funded by the U.S. DOE, Office of Electricity, and Sandia National Labs.

In 2013, the database covered 409 projects; it aimed to cover all energy storage projects globally by 2014.  By 2020, it covered 1,686 projects, comprising 22 gigawatt power of US grid storage capacity. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is around 90% of the energy capacity. Storage facilities are 80% efficient.

See also 

 List of energy storage projects
 Energy storage
 Hydroelectricity
 Hydropower
United States Department of Energy

References

External links 

 U.S. Dept of Energy - Energy Storage Systems
 U.S. Dept of Energy - Energy Storage Systems Database

Dams in the United States
Energy storage
Pumped storage power stations
Rubidium hydrogen sulfate. Rubidium hydrogen sulfate, sometimes referred to as rubidium bisulfate, is the half neutralized rubidium salt of sulfuric acid. It has the formula RbHSO4.

Synthesis
It may be synthesised with water and a stoichiometric amount of rubidium disulfate. Reaction takes place where there is no humidity:

There is another method of creation. It is similar to the synthesis of sodium sulfate and potassium sulfate. This reaction requires rubidium chloride and a little bit of warm sulfuric acid. Some hydrogen chloride is also produced during the reaction.

Properties
It is a hygroscopic compound. It has a monoclinic crystal structure, its structure is  P21/n. Dimensions of the unit cell are: a = 1440 pm, b = 462.2 pm, c = 1436 pm and β = 118.0°. Its crystals are isomorphs with ammonium hydrogen sulfate crystals.

Its standard enthalpy is  −1166 kJ/mol. During its dissolution in water, there is 15.62 kJ/mol energy produced.

After warming up it decomposes to rubidium disulfate and water:

Like potassium and caesium, rubidium has another hydrogen sulfate compound as well: Rb3H(SO4)2.

References

Rubidium compounds
Pars robot. The Pars robot is an Iranian drone designed to rescue people from drowning.
Pars was developed by Amin Rigi and Amir Tahiri at RTS Lab, a lab working on novel robotic innovations for increasing life safety and living conditions.  
 
The drone is an Aerial robot which is designed and made for saving human lives. The first purpose of developing this robot is rescuing people drowning near coastlines. By improving its applications, it can be used in ships and off shore relief stations. It can also be used in other applications such as real-time monitoring of marine and off shore structures.  Its price in 2015 is $9,185.

History 
A prototype of the robot was tested at the Caspian sea August 2013. Different aspects of the robot were successfully tested in a seven-day period. The efficiency of the robot was better when a competition was made between the robot and a lifeguard, in which the robot delivered a life tube to a victim who was 75 meters from the beach in 22 seconds, while the lifeguard took 90 seconds to reach the victim. 

First real-life use will be in Brazil, Italy and Mexico in April 2015.

References

Unmanned aerial vehicles of Iran