omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Hilary Kahn. Hilary J. Kahn (1943–2007) was a South African British  computer scientist who spent most of her career as a professor at the University of Manchester, where she worked on computer-aided design and information modelling. Kahn participated in the development of the Manchester MU5 computer. Later she became involved in standards development and was both the chair of the Technical Experts Group and a member of the Steering Committee for the development of the EDIF (Electronic Design Interchange Format) standard. Kahn retired from Manchester in 2006 and died in 2007.

Early life and education
Kahn was born in 1943 in Cape Town, South Africa and moved in 1960 to England; she said later that she did so to pursue her education and escape the politics of her native country.

She attended the University of London and studied classics, after which she attended a post-graduate diploma course in computing at the Newcastle University, where she was first exposed to working with the English Electric KDF9 computer and programming in ALGOL. She subsequently worked as a programmer at English Electric.

Career and research
Kahn joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Manchester in 1967, appointed as an assistant lecturer based on her ability to teach COBOL. She has been cited as an example of how women with non-traditional backgrounds could enter early academic computer science by offering unusual specialised skills.

Although Kahn never pursued a PhD, she was a faculty member who supervised a number of PhD students;   during her tenure she started the computer-aided design (CAD) group at Manchester, worked on the Manchester MU5 computer, and was extensively involved in standards development, most notably for the EDIF project. She collaborated with Tom Kilburn and wrote published several obituaries on him.

Kahn was also active in preserving the history of early computing at Manchester and in 1998 organised a large-scale celebration Computer 50 for the 50th anniversary of the Manchester Baby, the first stored-program computer, which was completed in 1948.

Kahn retired from her faculty position in 2006.

Personal life
Kahn's husband Brian Napper was also a Manchester faculty member. The couple had one child, a daughter, born in 1977. Kahn died in November 2007.

References

British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
1943 births
2007 deaths
Academics of the University of Manchester
Alumni of Bedford College, London
Alumni of Newcastle University
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
People associated with the University of Manchester
People from Cape Town
20th-century British women scientists
20th-century South African engineers
20th-century British women engineers
21st-century South African women engineers
21st-century South African engineers
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21st-century South African scientists
20th-century South African scientists
InMoov. InMoov is a humanoid robot, constructed out of 3D printable plastic body components, and controlled by Arduino microcontrollers.

InMoov is a robot developed for artistic purposes by French sculptor Gaël Langevin in September 2011. (The first blueprint files were published in January 2012 on Thingiverse.) Its peculiarity is that it is reproducible with a simple 3D printer small format (12cm3) and its files are under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC). The project is a platform for development and robot learning. On this basis and through this concept there were developed different iterations.

InMoov uses MyRobotLab software for control. MyRobotLab is an open source service based robotics framework. Its primarily written in Java, but has bindings for Python. It has a Web UI written in AngularJS which allows remote control. One of the services is a virtual InMoov which can be used to develop or test without the physical robot. 

InMoov is able to perceive sound, see, speak and move independently. The robot is able to identify its environment and through micro-cameras in some projects recognize voice commands that are issued by the owner. It features different touch sensors, PIR and 3 dimensional, in addition, the Kinect allows InMoov to see and analyze the 3-dimensional space of the robot's environment.

Through the use of open technologies and open source components such as printed circuit Arduino, many developers have changed InMoov in order to extend its functions to be used as the basis for many types of development. The most ambitious is the artificial recognition programs because the robot incorporates on its single platform a micro-camera, sensors and operating motion system, and the ability to connect to any computer.

The original prototype participated in the Maker Faire Rome in 2013, where he aroused great interest for its potential as a development model for robotic prostheses. Because its parts can be entirely made with a 3D printer, its potential uses are varied.

References

Open-source hardware
Humanoid robots
Poornima Vijayashanker. Poornima Vijayashanker is an engineer and entrepreneur. She is also a teacher at various tech hubs in San Francisco such as General Assembly, Parisoma and Hackbright. She has also started  Femgineer, a blog and teaching platform.

Biography 
During Vijayashanker's childhood, electronics were routinely "taken apart for fun" at her house. Vijayashanker took apart her first computer at age 14. The men in her family were all engineers, but as a child, Vijayashanker wanted to be a lawyer because being an engineer didn't seem "glamorous or exciting." Vijayashanker began to write computer code right after high school. After starting college at Duke University, she changed her mind, deciding that engineering would be "a cool and intense field." She double-majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

After graduating, Vijayashanker started work as a research and development engineer at Synopsys. Vijayashanker was a founding engineer at Mint.com when it was a start-up company, where she was also the only woman on staff. Vijayashanker was instrumental in building software for Mint from scratch. While at Mint, she began Femgineer in 2007, in order to write about her experiences and show that "women can be sophisticated, cultured, and still be engineers, Femgineers!" After Mint was acquired by Intuit, she left to start her own company, BizeeBee, which is a platform for fitness studios which tracks attendance, revenue and controls marketing for these types of businesses.

In 2014, she gave her first TEDx talk where she discusses why tinkering is useful. In 2015, she released an eBook, titled How to Transform Your Ideas Into Software Products. In 2015, she co-authored "Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking" with Karen Catlin.

Vijayashanker has said that if society wants to see more women in technology careers, then it is important to have more role models for women in technology. She also emphasizes the importance of encouraging women to pursue "hard-core engineering or finance roles" because these jobs are more likely to lead to top positions in the company.

Vijayashanker lives in Palo Alto, California.

References

External links 
 Femgineer

American women computer scientists
Engineers from California
Businesspeople from California
American computer scientists
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women scientists
TriMet (sculpture). TriMet (stylized as TRIMET) is an outdoor 1977 aluminum sculpture by American artist Robert Maki, installed on the Mount Hood Community College campus in Gresham, Oregon, United States. According to the Regional Arts & Culture Council, which administers the work, "TRIMET serves as an excellent example of how Maki's technical background is reflected in his work. The sculpture is built of geometric shapes that evolve and morph as the viewer moves around it, using negative space to help define the mass of the sculpture itself." It measures  and was funded by TriMet and the United States Department of Transportation.

See also

 1977 in art
 Trapezoid E (1975), Eugene, Oregon

References

External links
 TRIMET at the Public Art Archive
 Tri-Met unveils final plans for light rail project (November 18, 2005), PSU Vanguard

1977 establishments in Oregon
1977 sculptures
Abstract sculptures in Oregon
Aluminum sculptures in Oregon
Mt. Hood Community College
Outdoor sculptures in Gresham, Oregon
Sculptures on the MAX Green Line
CEATSA. CEATSA (), is an Argentine high technology testing company providing environmental testing services to the satellite, aeronautics, electronics, automotive, defense, and energy industries. It is jointly owned by the Argentine government owned telecommunications company ARSAT (80%) and public company INVAP (20%).

History
It was created in September 2010, started its operations in December 2012 and the environmental testing facilities were officially inaugurated in September 2013, when ARSAT-1 did its whole testing cycle. Its creation enabled the country to cover the whole life cycle of satellite design and operation.

The creation of CEATSA enabled Argentina to cover the whole cycle of satellite design and manufacturing. Previously, national satellites like SAC-D had to be tested on the Brazilian INPE. This was expensive since the move of personnel and ground support equipment associated with a single satellite was significant. Since the Brazilian testing facilities were too small for the size of the ARSAT satellites, it simply made economic sense to actually build the facilities.

The actual investment on the company was of approximately 40 Million US dollars.

Testing Facilities

 Environmental testing chamber
 Shaker (vibration testing)
 Reverberant Test Chamber (acoustic environment testing)
 Mass properties testing equipment
 Near Field Horizontal Scanner
 Anechoic Chambers

See also
 INVAP
 ARSAT
 ARSAT-1
 ARSAT-2
 ARSAT-3

References

External links
 CEATSA Official Page

Research and development organizations
Government-owned companies of Argentina
Science and technology in Argentina
Defense companies of Argentina
Laboratories in Argentina
Space programme of Argentina
Argentine companies established in 2010
Manav (robot). Manav (Sanskrit: मानव, pronounced "Maanav"/Mɑnʌv, meaning "human") is a humanoid robot developed in the laboratory of A-SET Training and Research Institutes by Diwakar Vaish (Head of Robotics and Research, A-SET Training and Research Institutes) in late December 2014. It debuted at the IIT-Bombay Techfest 2014-2015 in Mumbai.

Technical specifications 
Manav is 2 feet tall and weighs 2 kilograms. It has a rechargeable lithium polymer battery. Manav's outer body was designed in A-SET's 3D printing laboratory and is made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic. It has a total of 21 degrees of freedom, two of which provide head movement allowing it to nod and look around. 1 degree of freedom goes to the waist which allows it to articulate the waist movement, allowing for a more human-like movement. The Robot is also equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. It could perpetrate various activities like walking and dancing using human voice commands. It uses binocular vision processing, giving it the ability to perceive depth and perspective.

References

Humanoid robots
Bipedal humanoid robots
Entertainment robots
Social robots
Robots of India
Michael Richards (engineer). Michael Richards (1673–1721) was an Irish military engineer who rose to become Chief Engineer of Great Britain and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance.

He was the son of Jacob Richards, also a leading military engineer, and the grandson of Solomon Richards. The family were Irish Protestants who owned land in County Wexford. His elder brothers Jacob and John Richards both pursued military careers.

He was commissioned in 1692 (although he may have seen earlier service in the Williamite War in Ireland) and served in Flanders in the Nine Years War. He accompanied an expedition to Newfoundland in 1697. He played a role in rebuilding the town of St. John's which had been destroyed in a French attack.

In 1711, he was appointed as Chief Engineer of Great Britain, a position that had gone unfilled since the death of Sir Martin Beckman in 1702. On the reappointment of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, as Master-General of the Ordnance in 1714, his protégé Richards was made Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. Richards moved to Charlton Grove, a hilltop house in Charlton, with a view to the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Here, he oversaw the building of the Royal Brass Foundry (1716–17). This Grade I listed building has been attributed to both Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, but may have been designed by Richards himself.

Richards retired from the Army with the rank of Brigadier General. His marble tomb with an effigy in full armour is in St Luke's Church in Charlton.

References

Bibliography
  (2005): Follow the Sapper: An Illustrated History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Institution of Royal Engineers. 
  (2007): Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession. BRILL. 
  (2012): Woolwich - Survey of London, Volume 48, Yale Books, London.  (online text)

17th-century Irish people
18th-century Irish people
Irish soldiers
1673 births
1721 deaths
Irish military engineers
British Army brigadiers
British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession
Engineers from County Wexford
Military personnel from County Wexford
Secondary organic aerosol. A secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a molecule produced via oxidation over several generations of a parent organic molecule. In contrast to primary organic aerosols, which are emitted directly from the biosphere, SOAs are either formed via homogeneous nucleation through the successive oxidation of gas-phase organic compounds, or through condensation on pre-existing particles. These gas-phase species exert high vapor pressures, meaning they are volatile and stable in the gas-phase.

Upon oxidation, the increased polarity, and thus reduced volatility, of the molecules results in a reduction of vapor pressure. After sufficient oxidation, the vapor pressure is sufficiently low that the gas-phase compound partitions into the solid-phase, producing secondary organic matter (the particle phase of SOA).

SOAs represent a significant proportion of aerosols contained in the troposphere.

References

Bibliography 
 
 

Aerosols
Atmosphere of Earth
Atmospheric dynamics
Meitetsu 1800 series. The  is an electric multiple unit (EMU) type operated by the private railway operator Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) in Japan since 1991.

Variants
The type consists of nine two-car 1800 series sets introduced in 1991, and three two-car 1850 series sets introduced in 1992, built using the underframes and electrical equipment from withdrawn 7500 series "Panorama Car" EMUs.

Operations

The 1800 series was introduced in 1991 as two-car commuter-style sets to be coupled to six-car 1000/1200 series sets on limited express services during the busy peak hours. Sets are also used on their own or in pairs on other services.

Formations
, the fleet consists of nine two-car 1800 series sets (1801 to 1809) and two two-car 1850 series sets (1851 to 1852), formed as follows.

1800 series

The Mc cars have one lozenge-type pantograph.

1850 series

The Mc2 cars have one lozenge-type pantograph.

Interior
The 1800 and 1850 series cars have transverse seating with flip-over seat backs to face the direction of travel.

History
The 1800 series trains were first introduced in 1991, to augment the 1000/1200 series trainsets. In 1992, three more two-car sets were built, reusing the underframes and electrical equipment from withdrawn 7500 series "Panorama Car" EMU cars.

Refurbishment

From 2017, the fleet underwent a programme of refurbishment. The first 1800 series set to be refurbished and reliveried was 1808 in May 2017.

References

External links

 Meitetsu 1800 series information 

Electric multiple units of Japan
1800 series
Train-related introductions in 1991
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan

ja:名鉄1000系電車#1800系・1850系
1800 series. 1800 series may refer to the following:

 Keihan 1800 series electric multiple unit train type operated by Keihan Electric Railway
 Keio 1800 series electric multiple unit train type operated by Keio Corporation
 Meitetsu 1800 series electric multiple unit train type
 Tobu 1800 series electric multiple unit train type
 Toyohashi 1800 series electric multiple unit train type operated by Toyohashi Railroad
APAL Stalker. The APAL-21541 Сталкер (Stalker) is a Russian light SUV, originally assembled using the parts and mechanicals of Zhiguli cars. It was developed in the city of Togliatti, Russia, by APAL (Ru:АПАЛ), a Russian automotive industries plastic parts supplier, in 2003 . It was designed by Alexander Lyinsky and Sergey Nekrasov.

The original rear-wheel drive APAL-2154 was built from 2003 to 2006 while its 4x4 APAL-21541 successor is built from 2006 to the present.

The Stalker utilises a space frame covered with plastic panels, using Lada Niva chassis and mechanicals.

The Stalker was planned to be manufactured in ChechenAvto's Argun plant.

Specifications
Estimated price: 370 000 Rubles

Length x width x height = 3590mmx1560mmx1640mm

Number of seats = 4

Cargo Volume = ND

Curb weight = 950 kg

Gross weight = 1665 kg

Engine = I4 VAZ VAZ-21214 Gasoline 8-valve with multiple injection, 1.7 liter

Power = 82 hp at 5000 rev / min

Torque = 130 Nm at 3600 r / min

Transmission = a manual five-speed

Drive = rear or full, depending on customer requirements

Maximum speed = 130 km/h

Acceleration = 0–100 km/h in 13.6

Fuel consumption = unk

Tank volume = 42 l

Fuel Type = gasoline AI-95 (unleaded)

Models
 APAL 2154 - original version
 APAL-21541 - a light four-wheel drive SUV is assembled on the basis of components and assemblies of the VAZ-2121 4 "Niva". Equipped with 1.7-liter gasoline engine with a capacity of 80 hp

Variants
Travec Tecdrah TTi -  German manufacture Travec uses a modified APAL Stalker body-on-space frame using the Dacia Duster mechanical and an 80 horsepower 1.5 dCi engine. 

German company Baijah Automotive imported a modified version as the Baijah Stalker.

See also
 TM 1131, a similarly manufactured small car

Notes

External links
 The official APAL Stalker page
 APAL Stalker official Video
 APAL Stalker official VK page

Niva
Off-road vehicles
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Mini sport utility vehicles
Cars introduced in 2003
Cars of Russia
Comparison of large sloops. This article lists the largest active privately owned single-masted monohulls in excess of 130ft (39.6m) in overall sparred length.

Parameter list
Name: currently registered identification of the vessel
Year: year of launch of the vessel
Shipyard: signatory of the build contract responsible for the final fitout and the delivery of the vessel
Designer: naval architect responsible for drawing the lines plan and the sail plan of the vessel
LOA: overall sparred length in metres
LWL: load waterline length in metres
Beam: width of the vessel in metres
Draught: draught of the vessel in metres (minimum draft of lifting keels in parentheses)
Air draught: masthead height in metres
Sail Area: summed upwind surface area of mainsail and headsails in square metres
Displacement: displaced volume of water, upright, at rest, in metric tonnes
Hull material: build material of the hull
Propulsion: number of engines and their power in kilowatts

Fleet in navigation

See also
List of schooners
List of large sailing yachts

References
Superyacht Times - list of sailing yachts
Lists of individual sailing yachts
Sloops
American Crane Corporation. American Crane Corporation is an American manufacturer of construction cranes based in Wilmington, North Carolina. It manufacturers lattice boom crawler cranes with capacities ranging from 50 to 275 tons. The American Crane Corporation was founded in 1882 as the Franklin Manufacturing Company, and in 1892 the name changed to American Hoist & Derrick. The company manufacturers terrain cranes, crawler cranes and tower cranes. In 1998 American Crane Corporation was acquired by Terex for $27 million. The purchase of American Crane Corporation brought Terex a manufacturer of lattice boom cranes.

History

Beginnings: 1884–92
The Franklin Manufacturing Company was established in 1884 by Frank Johnson and Oliver Crosby in St. Paul, Minnesota. One year later Franklin Manufacturing Company changed its name to American Manufacturing Company. A wire rope clamp designed to loop wire cable without the losing the integrity of the wire was invented by Oliver Crosby in 1886. American Manufacturing Company invented further enhancements to the construction industry by establishing steam-powered hoists in 1889 and the largest electric hoists, up to 15 hp.

American Hoist & Derrick (AmHoist): 1892–1985
In 1892 American Manufacturing Company became known as American Hoist & Derrick for the next 106 years. The first mobile crane, the Traveling Derrick, was invented in 1895. It consisted of a revolving derrick and steam hoist mounted on a rail-car like wheels. The ditcher, a flatcar-mounted crane designed to excavate soil on either side of a railroad, was invented by Oliver Crosby in 1904. The first crawler was established in 1923 and made cranes mobile. The company became international when the Yokohama Warehouse was constructed in 1905. Major construction projects such as the Panama Canal and Mount Rushmore used cranes from American Hoist & Derrick. American Hoist & Derrick reached 467 on the Fortune 500 list with a total revenue of $464.2 million.

American Crane Corporation
In 1985 American Hoist & Derrick changed its name to Amdura. Also in that year a group of investors purchased the business. The result was a new company called American Crane Corporation. In 1998 Terex acquired American Crane Corporation. American Crane gradually built its market share after the 1998 acquisition with an estimated 70 crawler cranes purchased in 1999.

Gallery

References

Construction equipment manufacturers of the United States
American companies established in 1882
Companies based in Wilmington, North Carolina
Manufacturing companies established in 1882
Ashok Leyland MiTR. The Ashok Leyland MiTR is a Minibus manufactured by Ashok Leyland in Joint venture with Nissan. The vehicle was unveiled in January 2014 during the 12th Auto Expo 2014 and was launched in July 2014.

Variants
Ashok Leyland MiTR comes in one variant.

Specifications
Ashok Leyland MiTR
Seating capacity: 28 (including driver)
Displacement: 2,953 cm3
Max Engine power: 116.67 Bhp
Max Torque:  @ 2,400 rpm
Engine: ZD30 DDTi Common rail, BS III
Fuel: Diesel

See also
Ashok Leyland

References 

Cars of India
MiTR
Vehicles introduced in 2014