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Bristol Type 159. The Bristol Type 159 was a British design for a four-engined heavy bomber by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, of Filton, Bristol. A mock-up was built but the project was cancelled and no aircraft were built.

Design and development
In March 1939 the British Air Ministry issued specification B.1/39 for a heavy bomber to replace the Avro Manchester, Short Stirling and Handley Page Halifax. Bristol had submitted the Type 159, sometimes known as the Beaubomber which was a low-wing monoplane with a twin tail, using mainly components used by the Bristol Beaufort. It had a nose-wheel landing gear with the  bomb-load stored inside the inner wing. Four Hercules engines were the proposed engines that could be swapped for Rolls-Royce Griffons. The crew, apart from the bomb aimer, would be housed in an armoured monocoque structure with a dorsal and a ventral gun turret. The Type 159 and the Handley Page HP.60 design, a variant of the Halifax, were selected and the intention was to order two prototypes of each for evaluation. The Type 159 passed wind-tunnel for stability and low drag and with design well advanced a full-scale mock-up was ready by early 1940.

It was intended to build a half-scale aircraft for flight testing but with the Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP) concentrating on the production of fighters, further work on the Type 159 was stopped and the mock-up dismantled in May 1940.

Specifications (Proposed)

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Type 159
1940s British bomber aircraft
Four-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Moore Street electricity substation. The Moore Street electricity substation is an electrical substation in Sheffield, England, designed by Jefferson Sheard in 1968. The substation is an example of Brutalist architecture. Owen Hatherley describes it as "a shocking paroxysm of a building, an explosion in reinforced concrete, a bunker built with an aesthete's attention to detail, a building which is genuinely Brutalist in both senses of the term."

The building was illuminated in October 2010. Paul Scriven, then the leader of Sheffield City Council, commented "The newly lit building will be a shining beacon for the city and an iconic landmark on the inner relief road" and described the substation as "an iconic building which has been important in keeping the lights on in Sheffield since the 1960s."

The building was granted Grade II listed status by English Heritage in September 2013, with the building being described as a "massive and uncompromising bunker which by its plainness and displayed structure expresses a highly appropriate impression of enormous energy confined and controlled within."

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Brutalist architecture in England
Electric power infrastructure in England
Grade II listed buildings in Sheffield
Energy infrastructure completed in 1968
1968 in England
Aeroflying Sensation. The Aeroflying Sensation is a French ultralight aircraft, designed by former Airbus engineer Jose Verges and produced by Aeroflying of Saint-André-des-Eaux, Loire-Atlantique. It was introduced at the French Hombuilders Rally in Blois in 2007. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

By 2015 the aircraft was produced by Espace and distribution was handled by Randkar.

Design and development
The Sensation was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, a choice of tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from riveted aluminium sheet. Its  span wing employs slotted flaps. Standard engines available are the  Rotax 912UL and the  Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplants. A variety of kits is available with varying degrees of completion, none of which includes the engine.

The Sensation has a cruise speed of  on  and has a range of .

Specifications (Sensation)

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2000s French ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Nuffield Tools and Gauges. Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited in England was a designer and manufacturer of specialised mass production plant for Morris Motors Limited and its subsidiaries. It also supplied outside customers.

Morris Motors Tools and Gauges branch

Formerly a branch activity within Morris Motors a separate company was incorporated and named Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited to take over that branch business as of 31 December 1942. This followed acquisition of the Cheylesmore Coventry building. Once the home of the Swift Cycle Company and then in use as a factory making shells it had been badly damaged by repeated enemy action in 1940-1941.

Operations

Design and manufacture of plant
Designer and manufacturer of special-purpose machine tools and follow-through press tools including fixtures and jigs as well as small tools and gauges

Manufacture of prototypes
They also made prototype parts for any mechanism required.

Dissolution
Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited was dissolved in 1974.

See also
Industrial engineering

References
 The Papers of Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited, Reference GB 0152 MSS.226/NT. Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library. This collection forms part of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust Archive.

1942 establishments in England
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1974
Coventry motor companies
Defunct companies based in the West Midlands (county)
Defunct engineering companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct manufacturing companies of England
British companies established in 1942
Manufacturing companies established in 1942
1974 disestablishments in England
SWAN III. The SWAN III is a type of unmanned aerial vehicle designed by ELI Military Simulations of Estonia in cooperation with STC Delta. The system is intended for use in border policing, aerial reconnaissance, signals intelligence, disaster monitoring and other roles.

Technical details 
The aircraft is powered by a built-in combustion engine. It lands on a parachute and unfolds airbags for protection. It is controlled remotely from a ground unit.

Flight time: 8 hours
Altitude: 100–3000 meters
Speed: 60–160 km/h
Payload: Dual camera, photographic camera, thermal camera, infrared camera

References

External links
Image of the Unmanned Aerial System

Military equipment of Georgia (country)
Unmanned military aircraft of Georgia
Military vehicles introduced in the 2010s
Laurolactam. Laurolactam is an organic compound from the group of macrocyclic lactams. Laurolactam is mainly used as a monomer in engineering plastics, such as nylon-12 and copolyamides.

Synthesis
Although a derivative of 12-aminododecanoic acid, it is made from cyclododecatriene.  The triene is hydrogenated to the saturated alkane, cyclododecane. For the production of laurolactam, cyclododecane is oxidized with air or oxygen in the presence of boric acid and transition metal salts (e.g. cobalt(II) acetate), obtaining a mixture of cyclododecanol and cyclododecanone. This mixture is quantitatively dehydrogenated on a copper contact catalyst to cyclododecanone and this reacted with hydroxylamine to cyclododecanone oxime. The oxime is rearranged to laurolactam in a Beckmann rearrangement in the presence of a strong acid.

An alternative process is the photonitrosation of cyclododecane with nitrosyl chloride in the presence of anhydrous hydrogen chloride. The resulting cyclododecanone oxime is extracted with concentrated sulfuric acid and rearranged to laurolactam by heating to 160 °C. The overall yield (photonitrogenation + Beckmann rearrangement) is up to 93%.

Properties 
Laurolactam is a water-insoluble, crystalline solid; in technical quality usually beige colored and in pure state (99.9% purity) white. It is soluble in many organic solvents, e. g. 1,4-dioxane, benzene or cyclohexane. The purification process is carried out conventionally by multistage distillation under reduced pressure. The combination of distillation and crystallization from solution or melt yields very pure laurolactam (> 99%). The risk posed by laurolactam is considered to be low.

Uses
Ring opening polymerization is used to polymerize the monomer to nylon-12. The reaction can be brought about with cationic or anionic initiators or with water. Cationic polymerization with acid is believed to involve the initial O-protonation. Nucleophilic attack by the monomer on the reactive protonated nitrogen, followed by successive ring-opening acylation of the primary amine results in the formation of the polyamide. The ring-opening polymerization of the monomer laurinlactam initially proceeds upon addition of water in a pre-polymerization at about 300 °C under pressure to a prepolymer. This prepolymer is reacted in a subsequent polycondensation at ambient or reduced pressure and temperatures of about 250 °C to higher molecular weight polyamide 12 ( PA 12: -[NH-(CH2)11-CO]n-).

As a comonomer, laurolactam is used together with ε-caprolactam for the preparation of copolyamide 6/12.

Drug Use

Laurolactam is used in the synthesis of MDL-12330A [40297-09-4]. Although at first glance it appears as though Laurolactam is condensed with cypenamine, the authors stated that cis stereochemistry is chosen. The molecule is said to act as a Calcium Channel Blocker.

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Lactams
AeroJames 01 Isatis. The AeroJames 01 Isatis (named for the flowering plant) is a French ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by AeroJames of Ajaccio, Corsica. It was introduced at the Aero show held in Friedrichshafen in 2009. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

By the beginning of 2018 company website was for sale, the company seems to have gone out of business and production ended.

Design and development
The design is unusual in that the engine is mounted behind the cabin and drives the nose-mounted propeller though a carbon fibre extension driveshaft that is housed in a casing that runs between the two occupants. This allows a smaller and more pointed nose than with a nose-mounted engine and improves visibility.

The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from carbon fibre composites. Its  span wing employs flaps. The standard engine used is a  BMW four-stroke, two-cylinder, air-cooled, horizontally-opposed motorcycle powerplant.

Specifications (01 Isatis)

References

External links
Official website archives on Archive.org

2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Thierry Goudon. Thierry Goudon (born January 1969 in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a French mathematician. He works in applied mathematics, with interest in the study of Partial Differential Equations motivated from physics. He has made contributions on kinetic theory, which corresponds to a description of matter in terms of statistical physics. The Boltzmann equation for gas dynamics is a typical example of this activity. The kinetic framework also arises in many other fields: neutron transport, radiative transfer, and biology. He is interested in asymptotic analysis, including the study of hydrodynamic regimes and homogenization theory, establishing relationships between microscopic and macroscopic descriptions. He also works on fluid mechanics, both as regards the analysis of the equations and also the design of numerical methods for computing the solutions. Currently he holds a Senior INRIA Researcher (Directeur de recherche) position at Sophia Antipolis; he is the head of the team COFFEE devoted to Complex Flows For Energy and Environment.

Biography
Thierry Goudon completed his undergraduate studies in Aix-en-Provence and in Bordeaux, where he attended the Matmeca program. He obtained the PhD degree under supervision of Kamal Hamdache in 1997 at University Bordeaux 1. He joined the University of Nice as Assistant Professor (Maitre de conferences). He obtain the Habilitation to conduct research in 2001 and he became Full Professor at the University of Lille in 2003. Since 2008, he has held the pots of a Senior INRIA Researcher, in Lille until 2011, then in Sophia Antipolis. In 2008, he was awarded the Robert Dautray prize, jointly with Jean-Francois Clouet from the French Atomic Commission: this exceptional prize, funded by the French Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics in the honor of R. Dautray's 80th birthday, honours remarkable works on radiative transfer theory and its applications.

References

External links
 Thierry Goudon's professional website
 
 Movie: Avis de recherche

1969 births
Living people
French mathematicians
Aeropilot Legend 540. The Aeropilot Legend 540 is a Czech ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Aeropilot,  introduced at the Aero show held in Friedrichshafen in 2011. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The Legend 540 is a scale two-seat version of the Cessna 182, rendered in composites, instead of sheet metal.

The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, tricycle landing gear  and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from carbon fibre. Its  span wing employs flaps. Standard engines available are the  Rotax 912ULS and the  Jabiru 2200 four-stroke powerplants.

Specifications (Legend 540)

References

External links

2010s Czech ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Silver Cloud (yacht). Silver Cloud is a private yacht owned by Alexander Dreyfoos. It is a 134 ft SWATH (Small-Waterplane-Area Twin Hull) vessel, built by Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder, Germany, in 2008. It is believed to be the first yacht employing the SWATH technology. 

The SWATH technology was until 2008 primarily used only in pilot tenders, and military and research vessels. The use of a pair of cylindrical hulls, a bit like small torpedoes, connected by slender struts to the superstructure places most of the ship's displacement below the water's surface, in calm water. This results in an extremely stable platform. At the time the Silver Cloud was built, only an estimated 20 SWATH vessels were in use in the world.

The Silver Clouds beam is 58 feet, balanced by a 13.5 foot draft, with a cruising speed of 12.5 knots (14 knots maximum).

References

External links 
 The ship web page

2008 ships
Motor yachts
Emergency notification system. An emergency notification system is a method of facilitating the one-way dissemination or broadcast of messages to one or many groups of people, alerting them to a pending or existing emergency. The Emergency Notification System (ENS) was created by Dialogic Communication Corporation (DCC) in the early 1980s. DCC, including its patent portfolio, was purchased by Motorola Solutions as part of their 2018 acquisition of Airbus DS Communications.

Notification vs. communication 
Emergency notification systems constitute a (one-way communication) subset of the types of systems described by the broader term emergency communication systems which includes systems that provide one-way and two-way communications, between emergency communications staff, first responders, and impacted individuals. Mass automated dialing services such as Reverse 9-1-1, and the common town siren systems that are used to alert for tornadoes, tsunami, air-raid, etc., are examples of emergency notification systems.

Many local governments and organizations that hold large, public events adopt emergency notification systems to be able to notify large groups of people in the event of an emergency. For example, in 2013 the Dallas YMCA Thanksgiving "turkey trot" race, with over 40,000 participants, implemented an alert system called RedFlag.

Most major telecommunications providers offer Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) access to their subscriber data (in the areas serviced by the PSAP) in order to facilitate the effective use of one-way emergency notifications

One-click notification 
One click notification is a method of clicking one button within a mobile app or emergency notification platform to initiate the dissemination of a message. An emergency notification system is an example of one-click multimodal notification. Organizations use a one-click notification service to trigger the sending of messages via pre-saved configurations such as selected contact groups, chosen delivery methods etc.

See also
 Emergency notification app
 Emergency Alert System
 Common Alerting Protocol
 Civil defense siren
 Public safety network
 Office of Emergency Management
 Emergency management
 Emergency management information system
 Emergency management software
 Emergency control centre
 Wireless Emergency Alerts

References

 
Emergency population warning systems
AAEON. AAEON Technology Inc. was first founded in 1992 in Taiwan and has expanded globally since, establishing offices in United States, China, Singapore, Germany, France and the Netherlands. AAEON manufactures and markets a wide range of OEM/ODM industrial PCs worldwide. Its product lines include embedded boards & computer-on-module, applied computing & network appliances, All-in-One HMI systems & displays, digital signage & self-service kiosk as well as cloud computing. In collaboration with manufacturers and vendors such as Seagate, Blue Chip Technology and Sequans, many of its products are applied in industries such as machine and factory automation, chemical, medical, finance, education, transportation. In addition, digital signage and kiosk applications are more prevalent in recent years.

Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, AAEON has obtained many certifications throughout the years. It received the ISO-9001 certification and the ISO-14001 certification in 1994 and 1997, respectively. AAEON was awarded the TL9000 certification in 2002 and the ISO-13485 Medical certification in 2007. In addition to numerous awards from Intel and Siemens, they have been the recipient of the Taiwan Symbol of Excellence Award for 11 of the past 12 years. In 2000, AAEON acquired Astech Technology, Inc as part of its Panel PC Division. AAEON became a public limited company on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 2001 under TAIEX: 6579, and in 2011 joined the ASUS group.

See also

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1992 establishments in Taiwan
Computer hardware companies
Electronics companies established in 1992
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Asus
Register spring. In computer security, a register spring is a sort of trampoline. It is a bogus return pointer or Structured Exception Handling (SEH) pointer which an exploit places on the call stack, directing control flow to existing code (within a dynamic-link library (DLL) or the static program binary). This target code in turn consists of a call or jump such as "CALL EBX" or "JMP ESP", where the appropriate processor register was previously prepared by the exploit to point to where the payload code begins.

Sources
 

Computer security exploits
Atlantic Air BVI. Atlantic Air BVI (AABVI) was an airline based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the Caribbean which started up in 1992 with one Short 330-200 (VP-LVR) commuter turboprop aircraft. AABVI ran a service between Tortola, BVI and San Juan, Puerto Rico, with five round trip flights a day operated seven days a week. On 6 May 1993 the Short aircraft experienced an aborted take off from Tortola and ran off the end of the runway into Trellis Bay.  There were no serious injuries.

The wrecked aircraft was then taken by barge around to the north side of the island to be used as a prop for a BBC film. The fuselage was then taken to the Great Dog area in the BVI and sunk as a part of the BVI's continual artificial reef program. The plane, without wings or tail, sits in the sand patch in about 50 feet of water.

References

Airlines of the British Virgin Islands
Blinkbot. BlinkBot is a wearable glasses system that detects the wearer's gaze and blink and uses this to command a robot. The system was developed by Pranav Mistry of MIT Media Lab (and vice-president of Samsung Electronics since 2014) and Kentaro Ishii of JST and first published in 2010.

References

External links
BlinkBot project page
BlinkBot video demonstration
BlinkBot ACM Publication 'Blinkbot: look at, blink and move'

MIT Media Lab
Eyewear
John H. White Jr.. John Henry White Jr. (born November 10, 1933) is an American historian and museum curator.

Biography
John Hoxland White Jr., was born on November 10, 1933, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In his early years, he explored tanneries and the Cincinnati Union Terminal, where he was particularly interested in the roundhouse. From this, White developed a yearning to become a locomotive engineer. His first job during high school entailed working on a gearbox assembly line at the Triumph Manufacturing Company. He enrolled at Miami University, near his home, and during his college years worked at the McGowan Pump Company, where he learned drafting. In 1958, he graduated with bachelor's degree in modern European history from Miami University. As soon as he graduated he got an internship position as a museum aide at the Smithsonian Institution. His early years at the Smithsonian Institution were spent working on ship models for Howard I. Chapelle, the curator of transportation. His internship was extended from time to time until his position as made permanent in 1960, when he became an associate curator in the Land Transportation Section. From 1961 until 1966 he was an associate curator of railroads at the Museum of History and Technology (renamed the National Museum of American History, curator from 1967 to 1985, and senior historian from 1986 until his retirement in 1989.

White authored an important series of books on American railroad history. These carefully researched and well documented works are valuable for all students and enthusiasts of transportation history.

Works

References

Further reading

1933 births
Living people
Smithsonian Institution people
Miami University alumni
Writers from Cincinnati
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians from Ohio
20th-century American male writers
Isotropic formulations. Isotropic formulations are thermodynamically stable microemulsions possessing lyotropic liquid crystal properties. They inhabit a state of matter and physical behaviour somewhere between conventional liquids and that of solid crystals. Isotropic formulations are amphiphillic, exhibiting selective synchronicity with both the water and lipid phases of the substrate to which they are applied. Most recently, isotropic formulations have been used extensively in dermatology for drug delivery.

Uses

While it is well established that the skin provides an ideal site for the administration of local and systemic drugs, it presents a formidable barrier to the permeation of most substances. Isotropic formulations have been used to deliver drugs locally and systemically via the skin appendages, intercellular and transcellular routes.

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Phases of matter
Routes of administration