omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
I.Ae. 16 El Gaucho. The I.Ae. 16 "El Gaucho" is a nine-cylinder air-cooled radial aircraft engine, with a power of about . It was designed by the Aeronautic Institute (Instituto Aerotécnico, I.Ae.) of the Argentine Republic in 1943.

Design and development
The goal of I.Ae. 16 was to design an engine in the intermediate power range to equip general purpose aircraft, both civilian and military, that would be built by the Military Aircraft Factory. Due to the difficulty of importing materials because of World War II, it was designed to use only materials that could be produced in Argentina.

It was based on the Wright J-6/R-975 Whirlwind 9 engine with a displacement of 15.9 liters and in the  power range.

The Motor and Automotive Factory developed a version of the Whirlwind using up-to-date technologies that allowed it to provide a power of .

Production
There were a number of problems caused by its lack of experience, materials, and tools. This created difficulties in creating high quality metals with the required thermodynamic performance. About 300 units were produced.

Applications
I.Ae. 22 DL Advanced trainer
DINFIA IA 38 Experimental tailless transport aircraft

References

Notes

Bibliography

Further reading 
 

Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
1940s aircraft piston engines
Kilbourn Bridge. The Kilbourn Bridge is located south of Kilbourn, Iowa, United States. It carried traffic on Lark Avenue over the Des Moines River for . In 1890, the Van Buren County Board of Supervisors contracted with the Western Bridge Company of Chicago to build a bridge at the Kilbourn ferry crossing. It was destroyed in a flood in 1903, and the Board of Supervisors put off replacing the bridge until 1907, then all the proposals came over the $20,000 limit. They removed the limit the following year. The six-span bridge was designed by the Iowa State Highway Commission (ISHC), and built by the Ottumwa Supply and Construction Company of Ottumwa, Iowa. It was the first large-scale engineering project undertaken by the newly formed ISHC. The Kilbourn Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa

References

External links

Bridges completed in 1909
Bridges in Van Buren County, Iowa
Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Van Buren County, Iowa
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
Truss bridges in Iowa
Pratt truss bridges in the United States
BIZMAC. The RCA BIZMAC was a vacuum tube computer manufactured by RCA from 1956 to 1962.  Although RCA was noted for their pioneering work in transistors, RCA decided to build a vacuum tube computer instead of a transistorized computer.  It was the largest vacuum tube computer of its time in 1956, occupying  of floor space with up to 30,000 tubes, 70,000 diodes, and 35,000 magnetic cores. It weighed about .

History

In 1949, the Mutual Assistance Program (MAP)—later known as the Military Assistance Program—was started by the United States to provide military assistance and supplies to foreign countries needing to rebuild their military defenses after World War II.

In 1951, RCA was awarded a $4.5 million military contract to build a data processing machine to support the logistics necessary for the MAP.  The result was the BIZMAC computer system.

The first BIZMAC machine was installed at the Ordnance Tank-Automotive Command (OTAC) in Detroit, Michigan in 1956.  Eventually, BIZMAC computer systems were also installed at Higbee Department Stores, Travelers Insurance Company, and New York Life Insurance Company.

The huge BIZMAC system was very quickly made obsolete by faster and more reliable computer systems, including IBM's 705 computer as well as RCA's own transistorized 501 computer.  The BIZMAC was taken offline from the OTAC in 1962.  Only about six BIZMAC computers were actually made.

Features

A unique feature of the BIZMAC was the use of hundreds of permanently mounted tape drives.  This meant that tape data could be accessed immediately without constant mounting and dismounting individual tapes.

Engineers
One of the original engineers of the BIZMAC was Arnold Spielberg, the father of film director and producer Steven Spielberg.  Spielberg designed and patented an electronic library system used for searching data stored on magnetic tapes.

See also
 List of vacuum-tube computers
 History of computing hardware

References

External links
 BIZMAC Computer History Archives Project - Cold War Military Technology
 Vintage RCA Computers - A Brief Look at the RCA 501 - History Archives
 1956: RCA BIZMAC Computer
 Characteristics of the' RCA BIZMAC Computer

1950s computers
Early computers
John Hendrickson (businessman). John T. Hendrickson is an American businessman, the chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Perrigo, since April 2016, when he succeeded Joseph C. Papa, who became the chairman and CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

Hendrickson received bachelor's degrees in Chemistry from Hope College, and in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Hope College alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
University of Notre Dame alumni
American chief executives
China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering. The China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co., Ltd. (CPP) is a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corporation and the primary builder of pipelines in China.  The company has built much of the cross-country pipeline infrastructure in China and had several large-scale projects abroad.

Projects
Habshan–Fujairah oil pipeline, a 1.5 million-barrel-per-day crude oil pipeline from Habshan, Abu Dhabi to Fujairah. It was built by CPP and China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation, another subsidiary of CNPC, in a project under a construction contract for US$3.29 billion. The construction work was carried out from March 2008 to March 2011.
East West Gas Pipeline, a key pipeline of India.
China-Russia East Route Natural Gas Pipeline, a gas pipeline network linking gas fields in Russia's Far East through the completed Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok pipeline and planned Power of Siberia pipeline will carry gas on wards across China, reaching Shanghai. The Chinese side of the network has been under construction by CPP since 2015.

Cancelled projects

Borneo and Malacca-Johor 

In August 2018, the Pakatan Harapan seventh cabinet of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed canceled a CPP project in Malaysia, accusing it of participating in corruption. The company denied the allegations. At the time, the project paid for by the Malaysian government, was only 13% incomplete, but the money paid corresponded with a project that was close to 80% complete. In July 2019, Malaysian authorities seized $243.5M from China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering to compensate for the paid for but unfinished pipelines.

References

Companies based in Hebei
Oil companies of China
Jorge Gardea-Torresdey. Jorge Gardea-Torresdey is a Mexican-American chemist and academic. He is the Dudley Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). In 2002, he led a team that discovered the ability of alfalfa to take up gold from soil and to store it in the form of nanoparticles.

Biography
Gardea-Torresdey grew up in Parral, a mining area in Northern Mexico. He went back and forth to the United States as a child, where his parents were in school at the University of Southern California. He was raised in an upper-class family, and he had nine siblings, all of whom were younger. From an early age, Gardea-Torresdey was interested in chemistry, to the disappointment of his family of entrepreneurs. He obtained a doctorate at New Mexico State University, where he studied under Joseph Wang.

Gardea-Torresdey joined the UTEP faculty in 1994 and became the chemistry department head in 2003. His work focuses on the use of nanoparticles. In 2002, Gardea-Torresdey led a team from UTEP and Mexico using technology at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) to study phytoremediation in alfalfa plants. The team demonstrated that alfalfa would extract gold from the medium in which it was growing and that it would store the gold in the form of nanoparticles. Gardea-Torresdey estimated that, after some refinement, the process could harvest gold amounting to about 20 percent of the weight of the plant.

He received the 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). He was named a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor in 2012, one of ten in Texas that year, in recognition of his research and classroom accomplishments.

References

External links
Jorge Gardea-Torresdey on Google Scholar

Living people
21st-century American chemists
New Mexico State University alumni
University of Texas at El Paso faculty
People from Parral, Chihuahua
American academics of Mexican descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Hispanic and Latino American scientists
Buriti de Vassununga Area of Relevant Ecological Interest. Buriti de Vassununga Area of Relevant Ecological Interest () is an area of relevant ecological interest, a sustainable use protected area, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Location

Buriti de Vassununga is in the Atlantic Forest biome and covers .
The conservation unit is in the municipality of Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, which has a total area of .
It is near the Cerrado Pé de Gigante Area of Relevant Ecological Interest.
It was created by decree 99.276 of 6 June 1990 and is administered at the federal level by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio).

Conservation

Vassununga is classed as IUCN protected area category IV (habitat/species management area), with the objective of maintaining natural ecosystems of regional or local importance and regulating permissible use of these areas to make it compatible with the objectives of conserving nature.
Activities that might damage the environment are banned, including competitive sports, overgrazing, harvesting of natural products, installation of industries, construction of buildings, any activities that prevent regeneration of natural plants, soil erosion or silting of waterways, and any activities that may jeopardise the integrity of the ecosystems and harmony of the landscape.

The public agencies of the state of São Paulo may monitor compliance, but the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) retains the right to supplementary action.

Notes

Sources

1990 establishments in Brazil
Areas of relevant ecological interest of Brazil
Protected areas of São Paulo (state)
List of yachts built by Damen Yachting. This is a list of all the yachts built by Amels, sorted by year.

Amels BV

1974–1999

2000–2009

2010–2019

2020–present

Under construction

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| 2027
| 80
| Amels 80LE #4 / Project 8004

Damen Yachts

2020–present

Under construction

Superyacht support vessel

1996–2009

2010–2019

2020–present

Under construction

See also
 List of motor yachts by length
 List of yacht support vessels by length
 Luxury yacht
 Amels Holland B.V.

References

Damen Yachting
Built by Amels BV
Damen Yachting
Chandley Ovens. Chandley Ovens, based in Greater Manchester, are a bakery engineering company, and one of the UK's leading manufacturer of commercial ovens for bakeries. The company was formed in 1944.

Structure
Tom Chandley Ltd is headquartered in Tameside near the M60/M67/A57 Denton Interchange in Denton, Greater Manchester on the Windmill Lane Industrial Estate.

Products
The company makes large commercial ovens for bakeries and fast-food outlets.
 Deck ovens
 Conveyor ovens

References

External links
Official Website

English brands
Cooking appliance brands
Companies based in Tameside
1944 establishments in England
Engineering companies of England
British companies established in 1944
Manufacturing companies established in 1944
Continuous configuration automation. Continuous configuration automation (CCA) is the methodology or process of automating the deployment and configuration of settings and software for both physical and virtual data center equipment.

Overview
Continuous configuration automation is marketed for data center and application configuration management. CCA tools use a programmable framework for configuration and orchestration through coding, planning, and incrementally adopting policies.

Relationship to DevOps
CCA tools are used for what is called DevOps, and are often included as part of a DevOps toolchain. CCA grew out of a push to develop more reliable software faster. Gartner describes CCA as “Embodying lean,  agile and collaborative concepts core to DevOps initiatives, CCA tools bring a newly found level of precision, efficiency and flexibility to the challenges of infrastructure and application configuration management.”

Tools
CCA tools support administrators and developers to automate the configuration and Orchestration of physical and virtual infrastructure in a systematic way that give visibility to state of infrastructure within an enterprise. Generally thought of as an extension of infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks.  CCA tools include Ansible, Chef software, Otter, Puppet (software), Rudder (software) and SaltStack. Each tool has a different method of interacting with the system some are agent-based, push or pull, through an interactive UI. Similar to adopting any DevOps tools, there are barriers to bring on CCA tools and factors that hinder and accelerate adoption.

Notable CCA tools include:

Evaluation factors
Evaluations of CCA tools may consider the following:

Skills, training, and cost required to implement and maintain tool 
Content and support of the Platform and Infrastructure – tool specified for Windows or Linux etc. 
Delivery method and likening flexibility – important for scalability 
Method of interacting with managing system
Support and training availability and cost
Incorporation of orchestration with configuration management
Security and compliance reporting

See also
Agile software development
Continuous delivery
Continuous integration
Software configuration management

References

Agile software development
Software development process
Configuration management
Systems engineering
Orchestration software
Enrico Volterra. Enrico Volterra (11 June 1905, Rome – 29 June 1973) was an Italian engineer.

Biography
A son of the famous mathematician Vito Volterra, Enrico Volterra received in 1928 his degree in civil engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome and, in the same year, his professional qualification (abilitazione) in bridges and roads from the Polytechnic School of Engineering in Naples. He became in Rome an academic assistant to the Chair of Marine Construction and then in Paris a researcher in photoelastic methods at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chausées, before returning in Rome to start work as a civil engineer.

In 1932 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Zürich.

In 1948 he joined the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, then the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and in 1957 the University of Texas at Austin.

He married and was the father of two daughters.

Selected publications

Articles

with T.-C. Chang:

Books
with E. C. Zachmanoglou: 
with J. H. Gaines:

References

1905 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Italian Jews
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Engineers from Rome
University of Texas faculty
20th-century Italian engineers
Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
WAVAR. WAVAR, short for water-vapor adsorption reactor, is a process that has been studied for its potential in directly extracting water from the atmosphere of Mars by alternately blowing air over a zeolite adsorption bed and heating the bed to extract the adsorbed water. An advantage of this process is its mechanical simplicity and applicability to any point on Mars's surface. Its output is not sufficient for industrial purposes such as fuel manufacture, but it may be a useful supplement to life support in some architectures.

See also 
In situ resource utilization

References

Industry in space
Missions to Mars
Aaron Resnick. Aaron L. Resnick (December 13, 1914 – October 29, 1986) was an American architect, a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, and one of the founders and chief architects of what has now become known as the Usonia Historic District.  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Pleasantville, New York, Resnick designed twelve of the forty-three homes there. A structural engineer, as well as an architect, Resnick and his colleague, David Henken were in charge of constructing the Wright designed roads and the water system for the whole project, submitting plans to Wright for his approval.

Career as architect

Resnick graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School.  Later he went on to study architecture at New York University and engineering at City University of New York. Resnick taught architecture and engineering at the New York Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1985 while running his own firm. In 2015 Architectural Digest cited one of Resnick's houses as "a spectacular example of period design."

A collection of over 100 Aaron Resnick designs, 1947–1986, are housed in the Avery Drawings & Archives collection of Columbia University along with designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ulrich Franzen, Paul Schweikher and David Henken. Among other notable Usonian homes designed by Resnick is the Calabi-Picker House (1956) in Dutchess County, New York. In 1983 Resnick designed an addition to the house to serve as a work studio for the  composer, Tobias Picker.  Picker's mother, the artist, Henriette Simon Picker (1917–2016), later used it as her art studio working there until her death in 2016 at the age of 99.  In recognition of Resnick's contributions to the architectural development of the Usonian home the Westchester Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Institute of Architects grants a yearly scholarship to a promising young architectural student in his name.

Style

Commenting on his Usonia work to The New York Times in 1981, Resnick recalled: I think there was a great surge of idealism after the war, which gave us a freedom to do what we wanted to do.  We were united on several concepts: we wanted natural or organic houses, we wanted a sense of community spirit and we needed homes that could be built inexpensively. And, of course, we were all admirers of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Of course, in those days architects weren't talking about passive or active solar. But, esthetically, we were concentrating on opening up the house to the south, to greet the sunshine.  Additionally, many of Resnick's Usonian homes used circles and curves far more than the typical architecture of the time.

Family

In 1949, Aaron Resnick and his wife, Mildred became the first family to move to Usonia into a house Resnick designed. The house exhibits the quintessential Usonian vocabulary: open workspace, clerestory windows, natural brick,  and red concrete floors.

Death
Aaron Resnick died of a heart attack, October 29, 1986 at the age of 72.

References 

1914 births
1986 deaths
New York Institute of Technology faculty
Haskelite. Haskelite  is the brand name of a plywood, once made by the Michigan-based Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation. It was made from waterproof glue developed by . The moldable plywood was originally called Ser-O-Ply. It was used in the construction of various vehicles including military tanks, boats, airplanes, buses, trucks, and automobiles. The plywood was manufactured with different characteristics depending on particular needs and then given a brand name.

Background 

Haskell invented a process for making a waterproof glue called "black albumin glue" which was used to bond wood. The sheets made this way were eventually given the brand trade name of "Haskelite" after the inventor.

Airplanes  

Haskell plywood was used for construction of experimental and commercial aircraft. The first successful commercial airplane it was used on was the 1937 Fairchild Aircraft F-46.

The company produced plywood for use in World War I aircraft.

Duramold 

In 1939 a waterproof plywood called Duramold, consisting of thin veneers of wood and cloth joined using glue, heat and pressure, and designed for aircraft construction was invented.

The General Bakelite Company and Haskelite Manufacturing joined the Clark Aircraft Company of Hagerstown, Maryland to manufacture planes designed by Virginius E. Clark using Duramold.

Boats and canoes 

Haskelite was also used to make watercraft.

References

Sources

Further reading

External links 

Plywood
Brand name materials
Science and technology in Michigan
Giridhar Madras. Giridhar Madras is an Indian chemical engineer. He is currently a senior professor in the department of chemical engineering at the Indian institute of technology Hyderabad. He was a professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He is a recipient of the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship, J C Bose National Fellowship and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. He has published more than 550 journal articles, fetching more than 25,000 citations with an h-index of 80. This makes him one of the most cited scientists working in an engineering field in India. He has graduated over 100 students, including 50 Ph.D students. He also writes a blog about life at IISc.

After a sexual harassment complaint filed by a doctoral student advised by him and subsequent investigation by IISc's internal complaints committee that confirmed the allegation to be true, the IISc governing council asked him to seek "compulsory retirement" in October 2018. At first, Honourable Justice Devdas of Karnataka high court has stayed the compulsory retirement of Prof. Giridhar Madras on 7 January 2019, stating several legal violations were made by ICC in the investigation process.The court concurred with Prof Madras that the IISc failed to give him a show-cause notice before forcing him into retirement. Further, the woman had been satisfied with the professor's response to her first complaint which was eventually closed. Subsequently, on 6 August 2019, Honourable Justice B.P. Bajanthri of Karnataka high court absolved Professor Madras of any wrongdoing in the aforementioned case, and directed IISc to take action against the Director and the ICC "for violating the rule prohibiting disclosure of the contents of a complaint of sexual harassment and inquiry proceedings. "

The institute filed an appeal against the above decision. The appeal was disposed following a settlement reached between IISc and Professor Giridhar Madras. The terms of this settlement are confidential. Giridhar Madras left the institute taking voluntary retirement on the day of infamy, December 7 (Case WA 3681/2019).

A detailed profile of the eminent scientist has been published as a research article here

References

Living people
IIT Madras alumni
Texas A&M University alumni
1967 births
20th-century Indian chemists
Scientists from Bengaluru
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science