omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Thomas Kerr (engineer). Thomas Henry Kerr  (18 June 1924 – 9 September 2004) was a British aerospace engineer. He served as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II. He later served as the Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment and Director of Research and Development at Royal Ordnance. He was President of the Royal Aeronautical Society from 1985 to 1986.

Early life
Kerr was born on 18 June 1924 in Nottingham, England, to Albert Edward Kerr and his wife Francis Jane Kerr (née Simpson). His father had served in World War I as an air observer. He was educated at Magnus Grammar School, Newark-on-Trent. In 1941, the school formed an Air Training Corps squadron which he immediately joined.

Having served as a pilot during World War II, he was demobilised in 1946. He then joined Durham University where he studied physics. He graduated in 1949 with a first class Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree.

Military service
Having attended the Durham University short course, Kerr joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1942. He trained as a pilot and later served as a flying instructor. Having held the rank of aircraftman 2nd class, he was commissioned as a pilot officer on probation on 27 May 1944. On 27 November 1944, his commission was confirmed and he was promoted to war substantive flying officer. He was promoted to war substantive flight lieutenant on 27 May 1946. With the end of World War II, the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve was reconstituted and he retained his commission with the rank of flight lieutenant dated to 1 January 1948. He relinquished his commission on 1 January 1953.

Career
In September 1949, Kerr joined the  Royal Aircraft Establishment. As part of its Aero Flight,  he researched into factors affecting the spinning of aircraft.

References

External links
Obituary - The Times

1924 births
2004 deaths
Companions of the Order of the Bath
British aerospace engineers
Royal Air Force pilots of World War II
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Alumni of University College, Durham
People educated at Magnus Church of England School
Royal Air Force officers
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.6. The Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.6 was a two-bay, single-engine pusher biplane built by the British Royal Aircraft Factory, a larger version of their F.E.3.

Design and development
The F.E.6 was a larger version of their F.E.3. The aircraft was driven by a  Austro-Daimler/Beardmore engine, which drove a four-bladed propeller. The tail unit was on a single steel boom which projected aft through the propeller shaft. The biplane had ailerons on both upper and lower wings, with no wing stagger, while landing gear consisted of mainwheels on oleo struts with an auxiliary nosewheel. It was possibly armed with a 6-pound Davis recoilless weapon, or the Coventry Ordnance Works COW 37 mm gun. However, the aircraft was damaged upon landing during its first flight, and was subsequently not rebuilt.

Specifications

References

F.E.6
Pagotto Brako. The Pagotto Brako is an Italian ultralight trike, designed by Enio Pagotto and produced by Carpenterie Pagotto of Pianzano. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of . It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit without a cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from welded stainless steel tubing, with its single or double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The Brako is factory supplied only with Grif wings. With the Trainer wing it has a wingspan of . The wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin-cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition  Rotax 503 engine, with a reconditioned four-cylinder, air- and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition  Rotax 912UL engine optional.

With the Rotax 503 engine and Grif Trainer wing the aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the beginner Grif Trainer, intermediate Grif Spyder and the higher performance Grif Corsair with wing areas of  and .

Specifications (Brako with Grif Trainer wing)

References

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2000s Italian sport aircraft
2000s Italian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Kinoform. A kinoform is a type of computer-generated converging lens that is able to efficiently focus light to a point. They typically use holography to reproduce the optical phase profile of a normal converging lens, albeit on a flat surface.

They can be used in areas such as focusing x-ray radiation, or in the study of nanomaterials. Diamond is often used in kinoform lenses as it has a high thermal conductivity. Higher chromatic aberration is a common drawback.

See also
Metasurface

Further reading
A.F. Isakovic, A. Stein, J.B. Warren, S. Narayanan, M. Sprung, A.R. Sandy, K. Evans-Lutterodt, "Diamond Kinoform Hard X-ray Refractive Lenses: Design, Nanofabrication and Testing," J. Synch. Rad., 16, 8 (2009).

References

X-rays
Wheelman. Wheelman, wheel-men, or variation, may refer to:

People
 Wheelman (driver), a person who drives an automobile, especially for a getaway
 Cyclist (bicyclist), referred to as wheelmen in the 19th century
 Wiilman, an indigenous Australian tribe of Western Australia, sometimes referred to as "Wheelman"

Fictional characters
 "Wheelman", the player character in the Driver (series) videogame series
 Wheelmen, a character class in the TV show Machine Robo: Battle Hackers
 Wheelmen, a character class from the TV show Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos
 Wheelman, a fictional character from the E.E. "Doc" Smith novel Galactic Patrol (novel)

Arts, entertainment, and media
 Wheelman (film), a 2017 action thriller film
 Wheelman (video game), a 2009 driving video game
 "Wheelman" (TV episode), a 1985 episode of Dempsey and Makepeace
 "Wheel Man" (TV episode), a 1993 episode of Renegade
 The Wheel Man (album), 2007 album by Watermelon Slim

Literature
 Outing (magazine) (1882-1923), formerly called Wheelman in the 19th century
 Wheelmen, a 2013 a book about American cycling
 "The Wheel Man", a story by James Benson Nablo; the basis of the 1954 film Drive a Crooked Road

Other uses
 Wheelman, a penny-farthing bicycle manufactured by Coker Tire

See also

 
 Cycling, the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport
 Helmsman, a person who steers a ship, sailboat, submarine, other type of maritime vessel, or spacecraft
2003 in motoring. 2003 in motoring includes developments in the automotive industry that occurred throughout the year 2003 by various automobile manufacturers, grouped by country. The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the Earth's most important economic sectors by revenue.

United Kingdom
The Aston Martin DB9 was launched, replacing the nine-year-old DB7.

France
The Peugeot 307 CC was launched after replacing the 306 Cabriolet.

The Peugeot 206 receives a facelift.

Japan
The Mazda RX-8 was the precessor to the RX-7, it is a 4-door quad coupe.
The Nissan 350Z is the replacement of the old 300ZX.

References

Motoring by year
2003 in transport
Léon Diguet. Léon Diguet (25 July 1859, Le Havre – 31 August 1926, Paris) was a French naturalist.

He studied science at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, where he was influenced by scientists that included biologist Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and anthropologist Ernest Hamy. From 1889 to 1892, he was employed as a chemical engineer at the French-owned El Boleo mining installation in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur. During that period, he explored the peninsula's interior, collecting natural history specimens for the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Afterwards, from 1893 to 1914, he made six more trips to Mexico as an explorer and collector:
 1. A return trip to Baja California in 1893–1894.
 2. Jalisco and the territory of Tepic (a trip in which he conducted research of the Huichol and Cora peoples).
 3. San Luis Potosi, Colima and northern Jalisco. 
 4. Puebla, Oaxaca and Tehuantepec.
 5. Michoacán and the State of Mexico.
 6. Another expedition to Baja California and Jalisco.

As a naturalist in Mexico, he amassed an eclectic collection of insects, cacti, orchids, minerals, crustaceans, and other specimens. He performed archaeological studies in the Mixtec-Zapotec region and at Ixtlán del Río, as well as pioneering investigations of the burials and rock art in central and southern Baja California. He also conducted historical research of cochineal, studied the Huichol language, analyzed the different types of agave and investigated the properties of jojoba. On his journeys, he took many photographs of the country. the negatives later being housed at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris.

The genus Diguetia bears his name, and his name is also associated with numerous zoological and botanical species, two examples being: Sceloporus digueti (synonym Sceloporus orcutti, the granite spiny lizard) and Ferrocactus diguetii (a species of barrel cactus).

Partial list of publications 
 "23 phot. du Mexique (Etats de Jalisco et Sinaloa) en 1892 par Léon Diguet, donateur en 1893". 
 "Note sur la pictographie de la Basse-Californie." L'Anthropologie 6:160-175. 1895.
 "Rapport sur une mission scientifique dans la Basse-Californie." Nouvelle Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires 9:1-53. 1899.
 "La sierra du Nayarit et ses indigénes", 1899.
 "Les cactacées utiles du Mexique", published posthumously by André Guillaumin in 1928.
 "Fotografias del Nayar y de California, 1893-1900". México : Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos de la Embajada de Francia en México : Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1991.(Léon Diguet; Jean A Meyer).

References 

French naturalists
French geologists
French archaeologists
Archaeologists of the Baja California peninsula
20th-century French botanists
Scientists from Le Havre
1859 births
1926 deaths
19th-century French botanists
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.7. The Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.7 was a design project based on the company's F.E.4, except the F.E.7 was intended to be a two-seater, as well as a long-range bomber.

Design and development
The F.E.7 was powered by two Rolls-Royce pusher engines, each generating . These were mounted within the fuselage and drove the propellers by means of gears and shafts. It was armed with a Coventry Ordnance Works one-pounder gun, and a few Lewis machine guns. However, the project was abandoned.

Specifications

References

Bibliography

F.E.7
Tobu 7800 series. The  was a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway in Japan.

A total of 164 7800 series vehicles were built between 1953 and 1961. With the exception of two vehicles withdrawn due to accident damage, all of the cars were ultimately rebuilt between 1978 and 1986 to become 5000 series sets.

Withdrawals
Two cars, 7808 and 808, were withdrawn in December 1970 following accident damage. The remaining 162 cars were rebuilt between 1978 and 1986 with new steel bodies as 5000 series sets.

References

Electric multiple units of Japan
7800 series
Train-related introductions in 1953
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
Tobu 7300 series. The  was a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway in Japan.

The 7300 series sets were built between September 1959 and 1964 from 58 former 63 series EMU cars purchased from both JNR and Meitetsu, with new bodies based on the 7800 series design. The last remaining sets were withdrawn by September 1984.

Interior
Passenger accommodation consisted of longitudinal bench seating throughout.

Preserved examples
One car, MoHa 7329, is preserved at the Tobu Dobutsu-koen amusement park.

References

Electric multiple units of Japan
7300 series
Train-related introductions in 1959
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
Suzhou Oriental Semiconductor. Suzhou Oriental Semiconductor Co., Ltd (), abbreviated as Oriental Semiconductor (), was founded in 2008, located in SIP, Suzhou, China. It invented the world's first semi-floating gate transistor (SFGT) with Fudan University in Shanghai. The related research paper was published on Science on August 9, 2013.

See also
FJG RAM

References

External links

Manufacturing companies based in Suzhou
Suzhou Industrial Park
Semiconductor companies of China
Chinese brands
2008 in Suzhou
Alloy (Trillium album). Alloy is the debut album by heavy metal act Trillium. It was released in 2011 by the Italian record label Frontiers Records in Europe.

Track listing

Personnel
Amanda Somerville – lead & backing vocals, keyboards, engineer
Sascha Paeth – guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, producer, engineer, mixing
Sander Gommans – guitars, bass, engineer
Miro – arrangements, keyboards, engineer
Olaf Reitmeier – acoustic guitars, engineer
Robert Hunecke-Rizzo – drums
Simon Oberender – keyboards, mastering
Jørn Lande – guest lead vocals on track 7

References

External links
Frontiers Records official site

2011 debut albums
Frontiers Records albums
Naresuan-class frigate. The Naresuan-class frigate () is an enlarged modified version of the Chinese-made Type 053 frigate with Western weaponry, cooperatively designed by the Royal Thai Navy and China but built by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation in Shanghai. The ships came at 2 billion baht each, less than the 8 billion baht claimed price tag for Western-built frigates.

Ships in the class

Upgrade
On 3 June 2011, Saab announced that it was awarded a contract for the upgrading of the two Naresuan-class frigates. The scope of the upgrade will include Saab's 9LV MK4 combat management system, Sea Giraffe AMB, CEROS 200 fire control radar, EOS 500 electro-optics system and data link systems for communications with the newly acquired Royal Thai Air Force Erieye surveillance aircraft.

References

External links 

 
Frigate classes
Siemens-Schuckert Dr.I. The Siemens-Schuckert Dr.I was a German single seat triplane fighter aircraft first flown in 1917.  Its development and that of a more powerful, uncompleted variant, was abandoned after a flight test programme.

Design and development

The Dr.I was a single seat triplane developed at the same time as the Siemens-Schuckert D.II. It used the flat sided fuselage of the earlier Siemens-Schuckert D.I biplane rather than that of the rounded D.II.  Like the D.I the Dr.III was powered by a  Siemens-Halske Sh.I nine cylinder rotary engine.

The fighter was first flown in July 1917.  Later in its development programme the Dr.I crashed and was seriously damaged.  Siemens-Schuckert rebuilt it, though adding 2.90 m2 (31.2 sq ft) to the wing area.

Construction of a version powered by a more powerful  Siemens-Halske Sh.III eleven cylinder rotary engine, the Dr.II, was well advanced when it was abandoned.

Specifications (before reconstruction)

References

Triplanes
1910s German fighter aircraft
Dr.I
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Uttaradit railway station. Uttaradit railway station is the main railway station for Uttaradit province. It is owned by the State Railway of Thailand and serves the Northern Line. Uttaradit railway station is located  from Bangkok railway station. It is also a Class 1 Station and is also the base for many maintenance subdivisions for the Northern Line.

History

During 1905-1906 King Chulalongkorn planned to build a railway line from Bangkok-Chiang Mai and another from Uttaradit to Ban Krai then across the Mekong River to Luang Prabang. Thus a railway station was built here, and trees were cleared and the land was leveled to await the track-laying process, which happened later in 1907. In 1907, trains hauled rock-filled wagons in which the people saw every day. A railway station was therefore built in the forest cemetery of Wat Tha Thanon (now known as Uttaradit Station) in 1909 and was finished in 1910. The first Uttaradit Station was built in the Modernist Style of Jugendstil with a tower in the middle, designed and built by German architect Karl Siegfried Döhring. However, the tower was destroyed during World War II. The station was rebuilt after the war and opened for service once again in 1951. Due to an increase of train traffic, a new station had to be built 2.35 kilometres north and was finished in 1958, it was called Sila At Station.

Today Uttaradit Station is kept as an OTOP centre and there have been plans of expanding the station building into a department store.

Sub-divisions
These are the sub-divisions within the area of Uttaradit railway station:
 Uttaradit Branch of Railcars Department
 Uttaradit Branch Sector 3 of Mechanical Department
 Uttaradit Branch of Locomotives Department
 Uttaradit Locomotive Depot
 Uttaradit Public Administration of the Ministry of Commerce
 Uttaradit Branch of Railway Medical Unit
 Uttaradit Branch Railway's Labour Union
 Uttaradit Station Signal Control Box
 Uttaradit Tourist Information Centre and Centre for OTOP Products

References

Art Nouveau architecture in Thailand
Art Nouveau railway stations
Railway stations in Thailand opened in 1951
Railway stations in Thailand opened in 1910
Édouard Harlé. Édouard Harlé (1850, Toulouse – 1922, Bordeaux) was a French railway engineer (Ingénieur des ponts et chaussées) and prehistorian.

Édouard Harlé was a Director of the Chemin de Fer du Midi.

His collections of prehistoric artefacts are held by Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Bordeaux and Muséum de Toulouse.

References
Arnaud Hurel, L'institutionnalisation de l'archéologie préhistorique en France métropolitaine (1852-1941) et l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine Fondation Albert Ier de Monaco (2004)
Marc Groenen, Pour une histoire de la préhistoire: le paléolitique  (1994)

French prehistorians
French civil engineers
Engineers from Toulouse
1850 births
1922 deaths
Parazoom Trio-Star Delta. The Parazoom Trio-Star Delta is a German ultralight trike, bicycle and powered parachute, designed and produced by Parazoom of Rheine. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The Trio-Star was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . It features a Bautek Pico cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit without a cockpit fairing, adjustable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. It can also be equipped with a paraglider wing or ridden as a bicycle, with the appropriate options fitted.

The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing, in its "Delta" configuration it is fitting with a double surface hang glider wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The  span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a V twin-cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke  Briggs & Stratton Vanguard engine. The landing gear has an adjustable track width, depending on the application and wing used. The aircraft has an empty weight of  and carries a full fuel load of .

Specifications (version)

References

External links

2000s German sport aircraft
2000s German ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Powered parachutes
Ultralight trikes
Sila At railway station. Sila At railway station is a railway station in Uttaradit. It is a Class 1 station. It is  from Bangkok railway station.

History
Due to Uttaradit Station being overcrowded, a new station had to be built. Therefore, in 1958, Sila At Station was built about two kilometres north of the original station, in the applied Thai architecture style. Originally, the station's name was "New Uttaradit", but was later changed and became the Northern Line's major railway container yard.

A Hanomag Steam Locomotive, No. 274, is on display on station premises.

Sub-divisions
 Sector 3 Train Traffic Department
 State Railway of Thailand Northern Line Maintenance Department
 Sila At Railway Police Station
 Sila At Branch of State Railway of Thailand Medical Department
 Sector 3 Mechanical and Engineering Department

References
 
 
 
 
 

Railway stations in Thailand opened in 1958
Galal Saeed. Galal Mostafa Mohamed Saeed () is an Egyptian engineer and politician. He was the Minister of Transport of Egypt in two occasions, initially from 2011 to 2012 and later from 2016 to 2017. He also served as Governor of Cairo from 2013 to 2016.

Early life and education
Dr. Galal Saeed graduated as a civil engineer in 1971 from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He received a master's degree from the same university before he traveled to Canada to complete his postgraduate studies. In Canada, he earned a master's degree in the field of transportation and traffic engineering from McMaster University in Canada. In 1979, he received a doctorate from the University of Waterloo in Canada in the field of strategic planning for transportation. Dr. Galal Saeed began his career as a teaching assistant before getting a doctorate and becoming a professor. He studied and lectured in many universities like Waterloo, Cairo University and Kuwait University.

Career
 Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1992 to 2001, Cairo University
 President of Fayoum University
 Governor of Fayoum
 Minister of Transportation during the Cabinet of Kamal Ganzouri (was a candidate for the same post in Hazem El-Beblawi's government)

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20th-century Egyptian engineers
21st-century Egyptian politicians
21st-century Egyptian engineers
Cairo University alumni
McMaster University alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of Cairo University
Academic staff of Kuwait University
Governors of Cairo
Governors of Faiyum
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Transport ministers of Egypt
Siemens-Schuckert B. The Siemens-Schuckert B was an unarmed German two seat reconnaissance biplane built early in World War I.  A single example was delivered but soon lost.

Design and development
The two seat unarmed B was built in 1915 for reconnaissance duties.  It was an equal span, two bay biplane, with straight edged, constant chord wings mounted without stagger. Unusually, the wing spars were made from tubular steel. The wings had parallel pairs of interplane struts, the inner ones with additional diagonal strut cross bracing, and bays laterally conventionally braced with diagonal flying wires. The lower wing was joined to the lower fuselage longerons and the upper wing supported over the fuselage on a pair of outward leaning N-form struts from the upper fuselage; a fully semi-circular cut-out in the upper trailing edge improved the pilot's upward vision.

The B was powered by a  Siemens-Halske Sh.I nine cylinder rotary engine, driving a two blade propeller and housed within a partially enclosing, oil deflecting cowling.  Behind it the fuselage was flat sided. The aircraft had a conventional undercarriage with mainwheels on a single axle supported on V-form struts.

The sole B built was delivered to the communications centre at Ostend.  After it crashed there some parts were retrieved and used by Siemens-Schuckert in the construction of the E.II monoplane.

Specifications (before reconstruction)

References

Biplanes
1910s German military reconnaissance aircraft
B
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1915