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Isabel Gago. Isabel Gago (30 May 19138 May 2012) was only the second woman to study engineering in Portugal and the first woman to teach chemical engineering.

Early life
Isabel Maria Gago was born in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon on 30 May 1913. As the daughter of an army captain who was killed in Flanders during World War I, Gago was able to attend the Instituto de Odivelas in northern Lisbon, a school reserved for the daughters of army officers, at that time called the Female Institute of Education and Work. She joined the school as a boarder in 1922, at the age of eight. Following five years of primary instruction and two years of secondary school, Gago then transferred to the Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho Secondary School in Lisbon as she had no certainty of being able to complete high school at Odivelas. In 1933, she joined Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), eventually becoming, in 1939, one of the first two women to graduate in the field of chemical engineering.

Career
After graduation, Gago remained working at IST until her retirement, in 1984, at the age of 70. She became the first female teacher of her subject in Portugal, giving theoretical and practical classes in general chemistry and in the field of electrochemistry and electrometallurgy, although her lack of an advanced degree meant that she was never allowed to call herself a teacher and was always a "First assistant". In her career Gago faced significant problems as neither Portuguese society nor her co-workers accepted women who wished to carry out professional activities, particularly in the exclusive male world of engineering. In the 1940s she constructed a Portable Analysis Laboratory (Laboratório de Análises Portátil) for use in the field, in a wooden suitcase which could double as a work table so that the analyses could be done resting on the operator's knees. In the 1960s, she was part of the academic team that developed the laboratory at the University of Lourenço Marques in Mozambique.

Awards and honours
In 2011, in celebration of the centenary of the Instituto Superior Técnico, she was honoured, along with Maria Amélia Chaves (first woman to graduate in civil engineering, from the same Institute) and Sílvia Brito Costa (first female professor of engineering). 

Isabel Gago died on 8 May 2012.

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1913 births
2012 deaths
Portuguese women scientists
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People from Lisbon
Nagdhunga tunnel. Nagdhunga tunnel () is an under-construction highway tunnel connecting Sisnekhola of Dhading district and Nagdhunga in Kathmandu.  The tunnel will be a part of Tribhuvan Highway. The tunnel has a height of 8.3m and have a lane of 9.5m wide. The length of the tunnel is 2688 m.

Geology
The tunnel passes through bedrocks of Sopyang formation. There are six shear zones in the alignment.

Nagdhunga Tunnel Construction Project 
The contractor of the project is Hazama Ando Corporation. The project was scheduled to be finished by April 2023. The cost estimate of the project is about NPR 22 billion.

Features 
 Tunnel,  2.688 km, 2 lanes, total tunnel (carriageways) width 9.5 m, grade 3.5%
 Approach road, 2.60 km, 2 lanes, carriageway width 7m, 2 m shoulder
 Bridge, 3
 Flyover, 1 at Balambu interchange
 Toll facility, west side 3 booths, 3 lanes each and east side 2 booths, 2 lanes each
 Tunnel management office, west side area 390 m2 and east side 300 m2
 Disposal area development at the east portal;
 Transmission line 4.14 km.

See also
List of tunnels in Nepal

References

Kathmandu
Road tunnels in Nepal
Buildings and structures in Dhading District
Buildings and structures in Kathmandu District
Xochitl Dominguez Benetton. Xochitl Dominguez Benetton (born 23 July 1980 in Mexico City) is a Mexican scientist, graduated as a Doctor of Science at the Mexican Petroleum Institute in 2008. She conducts research at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research since 2011.

She is the inventor of the gas-diffusion electrocrystallization process, which has been heralded as a Great EU-funded innovation by the Innovation Radar of the European Commission. She is renown in Mexico and Europe for her scientific and patenting activity in the domains of metal recovery from wastewater and synthesis of nanoparticles.

Honours 
 She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers since 2011, holding the SNI II distinction since 2019.
 She received the award Distinguished Mexicans (in Spanish) in 2022,  which is the highest honour a Mexican can receive owing their outstanding trajectory abroad Mexico.

References 

1980 births
Living people
Scientists from Mexico City
21st-century Mexican scientists
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Hidromek. Hidromek is a Turkish heavy equipment manufacturer of backhoe loaders, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, and motor graders. Founded in Ankara in 1978 by Hasan Basri Bozkurt, as of 2024, Hidromek has around 2400 employees across six production facilities - four in Ankara, one in Izmir and one in Thailand.

History 
Hidromek was founded in 1978 by Hasan Basri Bozkurt in a small workshop in Ankara. In the first years, Hidromek produced parts such as pumps and torque converters for construction machines. In the following years, Hidromek was engaged in the business of producing and assembling loader and digger attachments on the agricultural tractors and converting them into a construction machine. In 1989, Hidromek produced its first original machine, the first backhoe loader. In 1999, Hidromek made its first international sale to Tunisia. In 2000, Hidromek produced the first excavator. Production and assembly facilities are located in Ankara and Izmir, overseas production and assembly facilities are located in Spain, Russia and Thailand. In 2013, Hidromek acquired the Motor Grader unit of Japanese machinery manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Hdromek started to develop military heavy equipment for armies. In 2014, the Spanish Army bought HMK102B backhoe loaders.

Hidromek's Products 
 Backhoe loaders
 Wheel excavators
 Crawler excavators
 Special purpose excavators
 Motor graders
 Wheel loaders
 Soil compactors

Gallery

References

External links 
 Official website

Turkish brands
Construction equipment manufacturers of Turkey
Manufacturing companies based in Ankara
Defence companies of Turkey
Turkish companies established in 1978
Victorian Railways H class (1877). The Victorian Railways H class was a class of  light line passenger locomotives operated by the Victorian Railways between 1877 and 1916.

History

During the late 1870s, William Meikle had designed a pair of 4-4-0 locomotives and had them built at Williamstown Workshops. These locomotives would be built using spare parts of engines from the Geelong & Melbourne Railway Company and were numbered 38 and 40 (later G class). Meikle would develop upon this design and placed an order of 8 from the Phoenix Foundry of Ballarat in 1877. While these were originally unclassed, they were later classed 'H' in 1886.

Production
Upon completion, the locomotives were similar to the 1874 K class and G class in both power and weight, but with driving wheels of 5 feet diameter instead of 4 feet. One strange feature was the inexplicably small grate area. Four-wheeled tenders with a 7-foot wheelbase were fitted.

Regular service
H150 was noted as being in motor service in 1908.

Design improvements

Accidents
26 January 1881 - H160 in accident at Beaufort
26 July 1881 - H160 collided with F98 at Beaufort
1889 - H152 broke driving axle

Withdrawal
All the locomotives were removed from the Victorian Railways register between 1905 and 1916. The boiler of H156 went to Bendigo shed in 1912.
H130 was sold to Trawalla and Waterloo Tramway for £600 on 31 May 1909 and was later sold to Smith and Timms, SA in 1912. Last seen at Mile End, SA in 1922.

One tender from one of the H class locomotives is preserved at the Newport Railway Museum, attached to Crane No. 2. This tender had last been used on Crane No. 3 (ex-Z526) until its withdrawal in 1978.

Fleet summary

References

Specific

4-4-0 locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1877
Victorian Railways H class steam (1877)
Broad gauge locomotives in Australia
H class steam (1877)
Phoenix locomotives
Passenger locomotives
Charles R. Goodell. Charles Raymond Goodell (1832–1901) was an American civil engineer and architect, prominent in the second half of the 19th century. Two of his works — Evergreen Cemetery and Lincoln Park, both in Portland, Maine — are now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Selected works 
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine (1855)
Lincoln Park, Portland, Maine (1866)
Eastern Promenade, Portland, Maine (regeneration, 1878)

Personal life
Goodell was married to Susan Watson Anderson (1835–1888).

Gallery

References

External links

19th-century American architects
20th-century American architects
1832 births
1901 deaths
Anish Deb. Anish Deb (22 October 1951 – 28 April 2021) was an Indian Bengali writer and academic. He was noted for his writings in the science fiction and thriller genre. He received several literary awards including Vidyasagar Award in 2019.

Early life 
Anish Deb was born in 1951 in Kolkata. He completed his B.Tech. (1974), M.Tech. (1976) and Ph.D. (Tech.) with 1 silver and 2 university gold medals in Applied Physics from the Rajabazar Science College campus of University of Calcutta.

Career 
Anish Deb started his writing career in 1968. He also edited a number of collections of popular fictions, novels and detective stories.                                                                                                                         Some of his notable writings are: Ghaser Sheesh Nei, Saper Chokh, Teerbiddho, Teish Ghanta Shat Minute, Hate Kalome Computer, Bignyaner Dashdiganto, Jibon Jokhon Phuriye Jay.

Death 
Deb died following COVID-19 in Kolkata on 28 April 2021.

References

External links 
 

Writers from Kolkata
People from Kolkata district
1951 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
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Bengali-language novelists
Bengali Hindus
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Indian male novelists
20th-century Indian male writers
21st-century Indian male writers
20th-century Indian novelists
21st-century Indian novelists
Indian crime fiction writers
Indian science fiction writers
Bengali-language science fiction writers
Bengali detective fiction writers
Indian thriller writers
Indian magazine editors
West Bengal academics
UZGA LMS-901 Baikal. The UZGA LMS-901 Baikal is a utility aircraft produced by UZGA (Ural Works of Civil Aviation).

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade selected UZGA in October 2019 to develop a replacement for the widespread Antonov An-2.
The prototype made its maiden flight on 30 January 2022.

The aluminum, single-turboprop airplane is powered by a GE H80 or a Klimov VK-800.

It is planned to carry a  payload or 9–12 passengers over  at  from short unpaved airstrips.

Development 

In October 2019, UZGA (Ural Works of Civil Aviation) subsidiary Baikal Engineering won a tender to develop a light multi-purpose aircraft for the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The first prototype was planned for the end of 2020, to begin testing in mid-2021; certification was planned for 2022 and mass production to start in 2023, while demand was expected for 230 planes.

The LMS-901 is designed to replace the Antonov An-2 after the SibNIA TVS-2DTS was indefinitely delayed.
Wind tunnel testing was completed in late November 2020, as Russian regional airlines were interested in 200 aircraft.

By April 2021, an LMS-901 prototype airframe was completed.
On 30 January 2022, the prototype made its first flight from Yekaterinburg Aramil Airport, up to  and lasting 25 minutes.
Serial production at Komsomolsk-on-Amur of 30 to 50 units per year was then planned for 2024.

By August 2022, it had been ordered by siberian operators KrasAir and Aeroservis, with seven too be delivered to the later between 2025 and 2028, powered by a Klimov VK-800SM turboprop.
In January 2023, Russian Aerokhimflot, an association of forestry and agricultural aviation operators set up in 2019, agreed to acquire 120 LMS-901s between 2026 and 2030.

In September of 2024, Vladimir Putin ordered the LMS-901 into serial production, although its intended Klimov VK-800SM engine is not expected to be certified until 2025, with deliveries of the engine not expected until 2026.

Design 

The aluminum-made, high-wing monoplane is to be powered by the General Electric H80-200 and seat 9 passengers. Smaller and almost two times lighter than the An-2, it should cost less than 120 million rubles ($1.6 million). The project cost is estimated at 4.5 billion rubles ($ M) and the operating costs (excluding ownership) at 30,000 rubles ($) per flying hour.

It should reach 300 km/h from a 95 km/h landing speed and cover 3,000 km.
Optional electric motors could offer redundancy.
It should fly a 800 nmi (1,500 km) range with a  payload from short unpaved airstrips.

Specifications

See also

References

2020s Russian aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2022
Josepha Gasch-Muche. Josepha Gasch-Muche (born 1 June 1944) is a German glass artist. 

Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States.

Biography 
Gasch-Muche studied painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trier, Germany. She initially focused on etching and drawing and became interested in glass later on. In 1998 she developed an original method of fragmenting thin display glass into even thinner splinters by breaking it with pliers; she then arranges these shards on top of and next to each other before bonding them invisibly.

She has won several awards for her glass work, including the Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass and the Bombay Sapphire Prize in 2006, and the Bayerischen Staatspreis in 2008.

Now Josepha Gasch-Muche lives and work in Alfeld/Leine Germany.

Books 

 Lichtphänomene aus Glas. Distanz, Berlin 2014,

References 

German glass artists
Living people
21st-century German artists
1944 births
Samuel Anderson (surveyor). Samuel Anderson (15 November 1839 – 11 September 1881) was an English surveyor, astronomer and mapmaker. He was a Royal Engineer and was involved with mapping the Canada–United States border in the 1860s and 1870s.

Career 
Anderson was born on 15 November 1839 in London, England. He entered the Royal Military Academy in 1857 and graduated as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in December 1858, having won a sword for "exemplary conduct".

He was appointed to the staff of the first North American Boundary Commission, established following the 1846 Oregon Treaty to survey the 49th parallel from the Strait of Georgia eastward to the Rockies. He received intensive instruction in astronomy at the Ordnance Survey office in Southampton before sailing to Canada, arriving on Vancouver Island in December 1859. In 1862, he returned to the UK where he worked through to 1864 on completing maps and reports.

From November 1865 to June 1866, Anderson worked in Palestine producing material for a detailed map of western Palestine. He then worked in the Royal School of Military Engineering in Chatham, pioneering use of electrical telegraphs and other apparatus for military purposes.

In 1872, he returned to western Canada after being appointed chief astronomer to the second British commission, and arrived at Pembina on 18 September 1872. He led the work of the British commission, which surveyed the boundary from Lake of the Woods to the Rockies, completing the surveying and marking of 860 miles of boundary west of Pembina in August 1874. He then worked in Ottawa until the summer of 1875 before returning to London. Here, the record maps were signed on 29 May 1876. For his services, Anderson received a CMG in 1877, having also been elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1876.

Anderson then joined the War Office as an assistant inspector of submarine defences, becoming an inspector in June 1881. He was promoted to the rank of major in September 1879. He died at his mother's house, Dalhousie Grange, in Scotland on 11 September 1881. He is remembered by a plaque at Rochester Cathedral as well as being the namesake of Anderson Peak located in Alberta, Canada.

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British surveyors
1839 births
1881 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
Surveying of Canada
Canada–United States border
19th-century British astronomers
Ferdinant Anderheggen. Ferdinant Anderheggen (20 April 1866 – 30 August 1931) was a Dutch automobile constructor from Roermond who produced a number of models under the Anderheggen brand.

Before trying his luck in the new automobile industry, Anderheggen was active as a competitive cyclist. In 1899 he successfully constructed an automobile, soon followed by a second model. The construction of automobiles went so well that Anderheggen negotiated with a French automobile manufacturer for the manufacturing of his creations. Eventually this failed and instead in 1901 he joined forces with machine factory P. Konings, that helped him manufacture a third car.

References

External links
Deautogids.nl

1866 births
1931 deaths
People from Roermond
Dutch automobile designers
Dutch male cyclists
Cyclists from Limburg (Netherlands)
Palladium(II) sulfide. Palladium(II) sulfide is a chemical compound of palladium and sulfur with the chemical formula PdS. Like other palladium and platinum chalcogenides, palladium(II) sulfide has complex structural, electrical and magnetic properties.

Preparation
Palladium(II) sulfide is formed when hydrogen sulfide is passed through an aqueous solution containing palladium in the +2 oxidation state:

Pd2+ + H2S → PdS + 2H+

Berzelius reacted palladium directly with sulfur to produce palladium(II) sulfide in 1813:

Pd + S → PdS

Structure
The crystal structure of PdS contains approximately square planar palladium centres and tetrahedral sulfur centres.

Reactivity
If palladium(II) sulfide is heated with an excess of sulfur, palladium disulfide is formed:

PdS + S → PdS2

Related compounds
A variety of other compounds in the Pd-S system have been reported, including Pd4S, Pd2.8S, Pd2.2S and PdS2. The mineral Braggite has the composition (Pt, Pd, Ni)S and is isomorphous with PdS.

See also
 Cooperite
 Verbeekite
 Merenskyite
 Platinum disulfide
 Platinum diselenide

References

Palladium compounds
Monosulfides
Fabris Febo Paglierini. The Fabris Febo Paglierini was an Italian sailplane designed to compete in the first Italian International Competition, held in Asiago in 1924. It was one of he better national entrants, all of which were outclassed by the Germans.

Design and development

The Fabris Febo Paglierini was designed to compete in the first Italian international glider contest, held in 1924 at Asiago. It was a wooden-framed, fabric-covered aircraft with a high, cantilever wing which was rectangular in plan apart from ailerons which broadened out to the tips. Built around twin spars, the wing had a very thick section, strong camber and low aspect ratio. The spars continued from tip to tip but there was a central gap in the surfacing over the fuselage. The wing was mounted centrally on very short struts between fuselage and spars.

The fuselage, which tapered in plan to the tail, seated the pilot in an open cockpit in the central gap between the leading edges. Its tailplane, mounted on top of the fuselage, was small and had a curved leading edge. The elevators were more generous and had a large cut-out for rudder movement. Its fin was triangular and carried a polyangular rudder that reached down to the keel.

Unusually for a glider, the Febo Paglierini's landing gear included both skids and wheels. Each long skid was attached to its lower fuselage longerons by short, vertical struts, two forward and one aft. The forward pair also carried a single axle with two large, wire-spoked wheels.

Operational history

The Assiego contest was originally planned to take place in August with the weather at its best, the date slipped to October as Italian competitors sought more time to complete their aircraft. By then the strong winds, relied on by these early gliders to generate hill lift, had dropped and the inexperienced Italian pilots struggled to compete with the Germans who, because of the post war restrictions on powered flight, had turned to gliding and came to Asiago with more refined designs and more experienced pilots.

Though German entrants flew for 13 -14 minute, only three Italians made an impression, with the best of them (the Cambilargiu Goliardia) managing 126 s. The Teichfuss Condor II crashed mid-contest and the longest flight of the Febo Paglierini, piloted by Cattenéo, lasted just 15 s.

Specifications

References

1920s Italian sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1924
High-wing aircraft
Christina Hicks. Christina Chemtai Hicks is a British Kenyan environmental social scientist who is a Professor in the Political Ecology group at Lancaster University. She is interested in the relationships between individuals, societies and nature. She was awarded the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography.

Early life, education and career 
Hicks was raised for most of her childhood in East Africa, and the UK.  She earned her undergraduate degree in engineering at Oxford Brookes University, and a Masters at Newcastle University where she studied tropical coast management. She completed her doctoral research at the James Cook University Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. After earning her doctorate, Hicks moved briefly to Stanford University, where she joined the Center for Ocean Solutions before moving to a lectureship at Lancaster University in 2015.

Research contributions 
Hicks studied the health of global coral reefs. She showed that the coral reefs that have healthy ecosystems were in remote areas with low fishing pressure and locations where there were high levels of local engagement with local marine management. On the other hand, places with poor fisheries governance, intensive capture and a recent history of environmental disaster have worse performing coral reefs.

As global diets move to become more healthy and sustainable, "blue foods" such as fish can have low environmental impacts and are rich in micronutrients. Hicks was interested in the injustices in the production, distribution and consumption of so-called "blue foods". In 2019, Hicks was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to investigate micronutrient variability amongst fish in tropical Africa. She is interested in the impact of fishing pressure, food insecurity and climate changes on these nutrient concentrations, as well as how nutrient concentrations impact social processes. She demonstrated that the nutrients in local fish were more than enough to treat people with malnutrition, but that the catch was often not accessible to people most in need. She has argued that instead of increasing revenue from fish exports, policy is required to ensure that local communities benefit from seafoods. Hicks believes that to effectively combat ecological destruction, efforts must be made to promote a healthy planet and also a just society.

Hicks appeared in the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, but criticised the film for being misleading.

Recognition 
2024 Pew Trust Marine Fellow
2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography

Personal 
Hick's mother came from a remote village on the mountainous Kenya-Uganda border and had had a career in education for development, and her father is British. Most of her extended family live in Kenya. Hicks is married to the marine ecologist Prof. Nick Graham, also of Lancaster University, and has three sons.

Selected publications

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of Lancaster University
Alumni of Newcastle University
James Cook University alumni
Political ecologists
Women social scientists