omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Franklin Bates Polson. Franklin Bates Polson was a Canadian machinist and engineer, and co-founder with his father of the prominent Canadian shipbuilding firm the Polson Iron Works.

Like his father William Polson, Franklin Bates Polson became a machinist and engineer, working for several Canadian railroads, until he and his father founded their shipbuilding firm in 1883.
William Polson was the first President, and Franklin Bates Polson was the Secretary-Treasurer.
Their firm built more than one hundred vessels, and built steam engines including for river boats constructed from local wood for service on rivers in Canada's then undeveloped west.
Their firm built the Manitoba, said to be the first steel-hulled ship built in Canada, and the largest ship to sail on fresh-water.
Their firm introduced the technique of designing vessels that could be disassembled.  Vessels that were to serve on rivers in Western Canada were first assembled in the Polson shipyard, and then disassembled into sections that were small enough to fit on railway flatcars, for shipment to a landing on the river they were to service, for a second assembly and launch.

In 1890 he became a director of the Parry Sound Lumber Company and the Parry Sound Navigation Company.
The President of the Lumber Company, John Bellamy Miller, became an investor in the Iron Works.  Miller in turn became a director of the Iron Works in 1892.  Miller would eventually become the senior partner and President of the Polson Iron Works.

The Polson Iron Works first shipyard was in Toronto, south of The Esplanade, between Sherbourne and Frederick.
In 1888 the firm opened a second shipyard, on Lake Huron, at Owen Sound, a small yet growing city, with a railway connection.
Owen Sound offered the firm an exemption from property tax.

By 1895 Owen Sound City Council were reluctant to renew the property tax exemption, market conditions in the shipbuilding industry had changed, and the firm closed its Owen Sound location.

Polson felt that the federal government was unfairly subsidizing the railroad industry, and that comparable subsidies should be offered to the shipping and shipbuilding industries.
His efforts to lobby Ottawa were generally unsuccessful, with the exception of his efforts to court Joseph-Israël Tarte, the Canadian Minister of Public Works.
Tarte commissioned the first of a series of dredges to enhance navigation of the St Lawrence River.

During Polson's lifetime the firm built the CGS Vigilant, said to be the first Canada's first Canadian built armed vessel.

Although Polson had a bout of typhoid fever, his sudden death at a relatively young age was unexpected.

Polson’s son with second wife was architect Franklin Murray Polson (1903-1978).

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1858 births
1907 deaths
Canadian engineers
People from Northumberland County, Ontario
Burials at St. James Cemetery, Toronto
Jure Radić (engineer). Jure Radić (15 September 1953 – 10 September 2016) was a Croatian civil engineer and politician.

Radić was born in Makarska. He graduated in 1977 and received his PhD in 1987 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Zagreb, where he also worked from 1977. In 1996 he was tenured. Since 1990 he is the Head of the Department for Bridges as well as the Structural Engineering Institute.

Radić was one of the founders of the Croatian Institute for Bridges. His work mostly dealt with bridge construction and concrete structures. He led several construction projects, among which are the development strategy of Croatian highways, post-war reconstruction model of Croatia, projects Maslenica Bridge and Pelješac Bridge, and others.

Since 1989, Radić was the President of the Croatian Society of Structural Engineers, and since 1995 president of the Croatian Association of Engineers. Since 2007 he was the general manager of Institut IGH. He served as the Croatian Minister of Science (1992), Head of the Office of the President of Croatia (1992–1994), Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Development and Reconstruction (1994–2000), as a Member of Parliament and the head of the Committee on Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications (2000–2003). He authored nine books, numerous scientific and technical papers. He was awarded National Award for Science in 2004.

Radić died of gastric cancer on 10 September 2016. He was 63 years old.

Works
 Mostovi, 2002 
 Konstruiranje mostova, co-authored, 2005

References

1953 births
2016 deaths
People from Makarska
Science ministers of Croatia
Deputy prime ministers of Croatia
Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament
University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Croatian Democratic Union politicians
Historical Aircraft Corporation. The Historical Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Nucla, Colorado. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of kit aircraft that were scale replicas of Second World War and vintage aircraft.

Construction techniques used in the company's products included welded 4130 steel fuselage frames covered in either doped aircraft fabric or in a shell of polyurethane foam and fiberglass.

The company is no longer in business.

Aircraft

References

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Replica aircraft manufacturers
Homebuilt aircraft
Southern Stove Works, Manchester. Southern Stove Works, Manchester is a historic factory complex located in Richmond, Virginia that replaced the company's original factory.  The complex includes two contributing prefabricated steel frame buildings built in 1920.  The west building contains the original two-story office building that has been connected by one-story infill to the long one-story warehouse building that contained the pressing and mounting departments and a three-part warehouse. The office is a five-by-three-bay, two-story, building measuring  and brick curtain walls. The east building today consists of the foundry with attached original washrooms and office, charging room, and an expanded mill room.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

References

Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Industrial buildings completed in 1920
Buildings and structures in Richmond, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia
Stoves
Jeppiaar Institute of Technology. Jeppiaar Institute of Technology (JIT) is a technical engineering college in Kunnam, Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, India. It was found in 2011 by  Jeppiaar Educational Trust, an organization created by the educationist Colonel Dr. Jeppiaar in 1987. The college is affiliated to Anna University.

Certifications
The Institute has been certified by the Management System Certification.

Academic departments
The college consists of several academic departments that include:
B.E - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING   
B.E - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING   
B.E - ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING   
B.E - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING   
B.TECH - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
B.TECH - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA SCIENCE
M.B.A - MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Facilities
The college provides separate hostel facilities for male and female students, and a number of extra and co-curricular activities such as sports and clubs.

Scholarships
Scholarships are awarded to students to encourage merit and to make education accessible to students from all economic classes.

Initiatives

JIT Sports Academy

JIT Sports Academy was established in 2011.

JIT Global Solutions

Jeppiaar Foundation

The Jeppiaar Foundation aims to provide education to underprivileged and meritorious students.

References

Engineering colleges in Chennai
Colleges affiliated to Anna University
Educational institutions established in 2011
2011 establishments in Tamil Nadu
St. Thomas' College of Engineering and Technology. St. Thomas' College of Engineering and Technology is an engineering college located at Kidderpore, in Kolkata, India. Initially under Kalyani University, it is now affiliated with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT; formerly West Bengal University of Technology, WBUT), Kolkata.

The campus also houses the St Thomas School, Kolkata and St. Stephen's Church.

Courses offered
The institute offers one undergraduate course (B. Tech.). All courses are approved by MAKAUT, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India and the Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal. The institute offers undergraduate B. Tech. course in the following engineering disciplines:

 Electrical Engineering
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Information Technology
 Computer Science and Engineering
 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

All these four programmes are NBA accredited. Provision for sports activities and games like cricket, football and basketball are available within the campus. Students interested in taking part should procure recommended shorts and vest. Further information will be provided from the college office. Besides these the college also offers Boys' Common Room and Girls' Common Room facility .

See also

References

External links
 

Engineering colleges in West Bengal
Colleges affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology
Universities and colleges in South 24 Parganas district
Educational institutions established in 2000
2000 establishments in West Bengal
SkyCycle (proposed transport project). SkyCycle was a proposed transport infrastructure project for London of a  network of elevated cycle paths above train tracks. The routes would have had a width of up to , and be accessed by over 200 ramps throughout the city, subject to a toll of £1. The developers of the project estimated that the cycle paths would accommodate 400,000 riders during rush hour and shave 30 minutes off current travel time. If the project became a reality, its construction was estimated to take over 20 years. The project was the creation of landscape architects Exterior Architecture and Space Syntax, with whom Norman Foster of Foster and Partners had been working since 2012. The proposals were welcomed by Network Rail.

History
The idea for the project originated in 2011 with Sam Martin, the director of Exterior Architecture, and his employee Oli Clark. Clark had proposed a network of elevated cycle routes around Battersea Power Station for his student dissertation. Following email communication with the office of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, Clark and Martin had a meeting with Isabel Dedring, the Deputy Mayor for Transport, incidentally encountering Johnson himself on their way to it, who was enthusiastic upon being told about the project. Dedring then arranged meetings with Dave Ward, the executive director of Network Rail. Dedring and Ward suggested that the group design an initial phase of the network, following the  route of the Great Eastern Main Line between Stratford station and Liverpool Street station. Martin approached Foster and Partners for planning assistance. The group estimated the cost of the first phase as £220 million, and the cost of the entire project between £7 and 8 billion. In October 2012, the proposal was rejected by Johnson, following a meeting of representatives of Network Rail and Transport for London, who had expressed concerns that estimated costs for the project had not been fully worked out and that London did not have sufficient railway capacity to build on. In 2014 the developers were said to be seeking funds for a feasibility study.

Reception
The cycling charity CTC expressed concern over the wind exposure that riders would face when using SkyCycle, as well as the steepness of the ramps. Wired called the project "amazing". ArchDaily said the project would divert resources away from more important projects and have some negative consequences. BBC News called it a "radical solution to protect cyclists".

See also
Cycling in London
List of cycle routes in London

References

External links
SkyCycle at Space Syntax

Cycling in London
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
Unbuilt buildings and structures in the United Kingdom
Proposed transport infrastructure in London
Scheibe SF-30 Club-Spatz. The Scheibe SF-30 Club-Spatz () is a 15 m class single seat sailplane built in Germany in the 1970s and intended for club use.

Design and development

Design work on the Club-Spatz began in 1973.  With a  span, it was intended to suit gliding clubs and inexperienced pilots, strong and easy to fly and maintain.  It is of mixed construction, using a combination of steel tubes with fabric glassfibre covering in the fuselage and with a wooden structured, plywood and glassfibre skinned wing.   Despite its name, the Club-Spatz was unrelated to the earlier L-Spatz but developed from the Scheibe SF-27A Zugvogel-V.

It is a shoulder wing cantilever monoplane, its wing built around a single wooden spar.  Its Wortmann airfoil tapers in thickness/chord ratio from 18% at the root to 12% at the tip.  The wing is also tapered in plan, with square tips; its leading edge is glassfibre/foam composite covered, with plywood over the remainder of the wing surface. There are all wood, spring trimmed ailerons and upper surface Schempp-Hirth airbrakes.

The fuselage of the Club-Spatz used Scheibe's traditional steel tube construction, glassfibre skinned over the nose and tail and fabric covered between.  The cockpit, ahead of the wing, is covered by a long, one piece, side hinged Plexiglas canopy which smoothly blends the nose contours into those of the fuselage behind and terminates at the wing leading edge.  Its fuselage tapers to a conventional tail; the rear surfaces are wooden structured and ply skinned.  A straight edged tailplane is mounted on top of the fuselage, carrying damped elevators fitted with adjustable spring trimming like the ailerons. Fin and rudder together are straight tapered and square topped, with the latter reaching down to the keel.  The Club-Spatz lands on a fixed, unsprung monowheel, fitted with a brake and assisted by a tailwheel.
   
The Club-Spatz flew for the first time on 20 May 1974. At least eight were built, two of which remained on the German civil aircraft register in 2010.

Specifications

References

1970s German sailplanes
SF-30
Glider aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1974
MV Cape Ray. The 648-foot roll-on/roll-off and container ship , built in 1977, was previously known as MV Saudi Makkah and MV Seaspeed Asia.  She can carry 1,315 containers and has both bow and stern thrusters.

After being acquired on 29 April 1994,  was in the Ready Reserve Force.  She is generally used to transport vehicles to war zones from the United States.

Syrian weapons destruction

Cape Ray played a central role in the 2014 destruction of Syria's declared stockpile of chemical weapons. For that mission she was under the command of civilian master Horace "Rick" Jordan. The ship was outfitted with two Field Deployable Hydrolysis Systems manned by United States Army civilians, who then performed the destruction operations at sea.

On 16 January 2014 the Italian Minister of Infrastructures and Transports, Maurizio Lupi, said that MV Cape Ray would load 530 tons of chemical weapons material in the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, Italy, from the Danish ship MV Ark Futura. She deployed on 25 June 2014.

References

1977 ships
Chemical weapons demilitarization
Ships built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Transports of the United States Navy
Llyn Bodgylched. Llyn Bodgylched is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or SSSI) in Anglesey, North Wales, to the west of Beaumaris. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since January 1968 in an attempt to protect its fragile biological elements, mainly a swamp. The site has an area of 16.37 hectares and is managed by Natural Resources Wales.

Description
Llyn Bodgylched has been designated as a SSSI for its biological interest. The lake is partially impounded by an embankment along its western shoreline and a dam at its southern end. The lake is set in a shallow basin in Precambrian rock of the Mona complex which has been overlain by boulder clay and there are alluvial deposits along the western shore.

Flora and fauna
The lake is dominated by tall fen vegetation, especially common reed, although in some areas bottle sedge bogbean, Yellow flag iris and greater pond sedge are locally dominant and there are patches of common club-rush, reed canary-grass, reedmace and greater tussock-sedge. Species which are uncommon on the island or in northern Wales include Lesser water-plantain, greater spearwort and lesser tussock-sedge occur locally within the fen. The parts of the site which are dominated by purple moor-grass host a diverse flora including petty whin and large populations of saw-wort. Where lime-rich springs emerge, blunt-flowered rush is common and grass of Parnassus and marsh helleborine are found alongside it. It is one of only three sites on Anglesey where the short-spiked bladder sedge had been recorded according to Hugh Davies 1813 book in the island's botany, however, this species has since been shown to be more widespread.

The breeding bird community is of particular importance including such species as mute swan, tufted duck, shoveler, teal, water rail and reed warbler which regularly breed. Over wintering wildfowl occur in small numbers and this site is locally important for shoveler. A small flock of the nominate European subspecies of the greater white-fronted goose is of interest, occurring here well away from the major wintering distribution in southern Britain. The swamp has a roost of common starling while whooper swan and goosander also winter here and rarer visitors have included Cetti's warbler and bittern.

See also
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Isle of Anglesey

References

External links
Natural Resource Wales Website

Sites of Special Scientific Interest on Anglesey
Lockheed Trophy. The Lockheed Trophy was awarded for freestyle aerobatics

The Lockheed Trophy was awarded in freestyle aerobatic competition held in England from 1955 to 1965. The trophy was superseded by the Biancotto Trophy competition, named after three-time Lockheed trophy winner Leon Biancotto, who died in competition in 1962

History
In 1963 the Lockheed trophy competition was held during the Baginton National Air Race.

References

Aerobatics
Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's slalom. The Men's slalom competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse.

The defending world champion was Carlo Senoner of Italy, while France's Jean-Claude Killy was the defending World Cup slalom champion and Switzerland's Dumeng Giovanoli was the leader of the 1968 World Cup.

Final

Classification

Round One
The top two in each heat advanced directly to the final, with the other racers moving to the second round.

Heat A

Heat B

Heat C

Heat D

Heat E

Heat F

Heat G

Heat H

Heat I

Heat J

Heat K

Heat L

Heat M

Heat N

Heat O

Heat P

Heat Q

Round Two

The winner of each heat advanced to the final.

Heat A

Heat B

Heat C

Heat D

Heat E

Heat F

Heat G

Heat H

Heat I

Heat J

Heat K

Heat L

Heat M

Heat N

Heat O

Heat P

Heat Q

References 

Men's slalom
Winter Olympics
Sharpe SA-1. The  Sharpe SA-1 is an American single seat homebuilt aircraft.

Design and development
The SA-1 is a single place conventional landing gear-equipped mid-wing aircraft developed in 1957. The wing is constructed from a cut-down Luscombe 8. The landing gear is from a J-3 Cub.

Specifications (SA-1)

See also

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Bikramjit Basu. Bikramjit Basu is currently a full professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, specializing in Engineering Ceramics and Biomaterials Science.  He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2013 in engineering science category. The prize was awarded for his "outstanding contributions encompassing theory and experiments to significantly expand our  understanding of the in vitro cell functionality modulation on engineered  bio-materials using electric field simulation approach". With a team of clinicians and entrepreneurs, he is actively involved in translating his research into implantable biomedical devices for orthopedic and dental restorative applications and currently leading a center of Excellence at IISc, Bangalore. In 2015, he received the National Bioscience award.  Besides, Prof. Basu is also involved in development of Zirconum diboride based UHTCs.

Education 
Basu obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, both in Metallurgical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He secured PhD degree  in Ceramics from  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 2001. After returning to India, he joined IIT Kanpur in 2001 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to full professor at IIT Kanpur in March, 2012. He joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2011.

Research 
Basu has authored/co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed research papers with twenty three papers in Journal of American Ceramic Society. He has authored the first Indian textbook on Musculoskeletal Biomaterials (2016) published by Springer Nature Inc. and co-authored two textbooks, one on Structural Ceramics and the other on Tribology.

Awards 
Basu has received young scientists awards from the Indian Ceramic Society (2003), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2004), and the Indian National Science Academy (2005). He was given the Metallurgist of the Year  award (2010), instituted by Ministry of Steels, Government of India. He is the first Indian to receive (2008) the Coble Award  for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society. He is an elected Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering; National Academy of Sciences, India; West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology; and Society for Biomaterials, India. In 2017, he is elected as a fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160427051933/http://mrc.iisc.ernet.in/~bikram/index.html

Living people
Indian biochemists
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Scientists from Bengaluru
N-BIOS Prize recipients
Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science
Engineers from West Bengal