omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Lalamilo Wells. Lalamilo Wells is a wind farm on the island of Hawaii. It is located within the ahupuaa (ancient land division) called Lalamilo, between the coastal area known as Puako, Hawaii, and the inland towns of Waimea and Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. It was commissioned in 1985 with 39 17.5 kW Jacobs wind turbines and 81 20 kW Jacobs wind turbines, yielding a total capacity of 2.3 MW.

Starting in January 2006, the electric utility operating the wind farm, Hawaiian Electric Company  (HELCO), operated a demonstration model of a grid-stabilizing unit, known as an Electronic Shock Absorber (ESA). This unit was designed to increase the stability of the island's grid, which has a relatively high penetration of wind energy, which is subject to rapid fluctuations. However, the unit was damaged in an earthquake in October 2006.

Repowering
By 2010 the turbines were antiquated; only two-thirds were still in operation. The farm was decommissioned that year in anticipation of replacing the turbines with more efficient modern models.

Lalamilo Wind Company was awarded the contract to repower and operate the wind farm.  Five Vestas V47/660 kW turbines were installed and commissioned that together have a generating capacity of 3.3 MW.  The power produced is primarily used to supply a set of nearby deep wells operated by Hawaii County Department of Water Services.  The wind farm became operational in September 2017, but has since been mired in legal challenges with Hawaiian County DWS over the 2013 power purchase agreement.

References 

Wind farms in Hawaii
Energy infrastructure completed in 1985
1985 establishments in Hawaii
Spartan Packet Radio Experiment. The Spartan Packet Radio Experiment (SPRE) was an Amateur Radio communications experiment that flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavours STS-72 mission as part of NASA's Spartan/OAST-Flyer spacecraft in January 1996. The experiment was intended to test the tracking of satellites via amateur packet radio (Automatic Packet Reporting System), and was designed and built by the Amateur Radio Association at the University of Maryland (W3EAX). Required GPS data for the experiment was provided by another portion of the Spartan payload. The operating mode was FM, AFSK 1200 baud packet radio, transmitted at 145.550 MHz.

References

External links
 
 

Packet radio
Global Positioning System
Space Shuttle program
Pradeep Rohatgi. Pradeep K. Rohatgi (born 14 August 1943) is a professor of materials engineering, and director of the  for Composites at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Education and career 
In India Institute of Technology, Kanpur he pioneered incorporating renewable materials such as coir(fiber from coconut shell), banana and sial plant fiber into composites. "The solidification processing of metal-matrix composites: The Rohatgi Symposium."
 This first creation of a cast metal matrix composite material is considered a landmark in the 11,000-year history of metal casting
Rohatgi served as founding director of the Regional Research Laboratories (CSIR) at Trivandrum and Bhopal, and as a professor at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he worked on incorporating renewable materials such as coir (fiber from the coconut shell), and banana and sisal plant fibers into polymer composites.

Honors and achievements 
Rohatgi has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society for Metals, Institute of Metals, Institute of Ceramics, Institution of Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Third World Academy of Sciences. He has been a consultant to several industries as well as to the government of India, the state governments of Kerala and Madhya Pradesh, the World Bank and the United Nations on science, technology and development. Rohatgi has coauthored and edited eleven books, including the first monograph on biomimetic self-healing materials.  In March 2006, he was honored by the holding of a "Rohatgi Honorary Symposium" on Solidification Processing of Metal Matrix Composites by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in San Antonio, Texas. Rohatgi was inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Sciences & Letters in 2014.

References

External links

Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi faculty website 
Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi Lab

Living people
1943 births
People from Kanpur
Indian materials scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
Academic staff of IIT Kanpur
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Marlborough-Thomas. The Marlborough-Thomas (possibly a.k.a. Marlborough) was a British car manufactured in a garage at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey between 1923 and 1924. It was a joint venture between T.B. André and J. G. Parry-Thomas from Wales, but only a handful of cars were made.

The Cars
The 1493 cc four-cylinder engine had leaf spring valve gear as used on the Leyland Eight which Parry Thomas was also involved with. The car had an advanced specification with torsion bar suspension  and four-wheel brakes. There was also a promised version with a double overhead cam engine. The cars were advertised at £575 but few appear to have reached customers.

T.B. André
Theodore Bernard André was involved in the manufacture of Silent-bloc rubber bushed bearings; Hartford shock absorbers; Len Brake Co brake shoes; the Anglo/French Marlborough from 1906 until 1926; plus the André car between 1933 and 1934.

See also
 List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

References

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Vehicle manufacture in London
1920s cars
Defunct companies based in Surrey
Kirk Francis. Kirk H. Francis (born August 27, 1947) is a former production sound mixer in the motion picture industry.

See also 
Foley (filmmaking)
Composer
audio engineer
Shiloh Godson

References

External links
 

1947 births
Living people
American audio engineers
Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners
Best Sound BAFTA Award winners
People from Oakland, California
Engineers from California
Flats Sequencing System. Flats Sequencing System (FSS) is an automated system used by the US Postal Service.  It uses a dual pass sort technique to sort flats all the way to delivery sequence order.  Prior to the deployment of FSS machines, flats were machine sorted to the route level only.  Carriers had to manually sort all the flats they were to deliver into proper delivery order before they could embark on their routes.  With FSS, when the carrier receives them they are ready to be delivered without need for any further manual sorting.

FSS machines are manufactured by Northrop Grumman.  Deployment began in 2008.

External links 
 Promotional video done in the style of a movie trailer

Mail sorting
United States Postal Service
MV Dmitry Donskoy. Dmitry Donskoy was a 5,061-ton German cargo ship which was built in 1943 as Eberhart Essberger. Taken as a British war prize in 1945, she was renamed Empire Ayr. She was allocated to the Soviet Union in 1946 and served until scrapped in 1974.

History
Eberhart Essberger was built by Öresundsvarvet, Landskrona, and launched on 11 May 1943. She was completed on 20 January 1944. She was built for J T Essberger, Hamburg. Eberhart Essberger participated in Operation Hannibal in January 1945. She was taken as a war prize in Kiel in May 1945 and ownership passed to the British Ministry of War Transport. She operated under the management of F C Strick & Co Ltd. In 1946, 'Empire Ayr' brought the first consignment of  of dates to reach Liverpool that year. Later that year, she was allocated to the Soviet Union and renamed Dimtry Donskoy (Дмитрий Донской). She was operated by the Baltic Shipping Co, Leningrad, and served until she was scrapped in the fourth quarter of 1974.

Official Number and code letters
Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers.

Empire Ayr had the UK Official Number 180681 and used the Code Letters GNPS

References

Ships built in Landskrona
World War II merchant ships of Germany
Merchant ships of the Soviet Union
1943 ships
Soviet Union–United Kingdom military relations
Germany–Soviet Union military relations
Empire ships
Ministry of War Transport ships
British quarrying and mining narrow-gauge railways. Some industrial narrow-gauge railways  in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man were primarily built to serve quarrying, mining, and similar industries. Some of these narrow-gauge railways offered passenger services for employees or workmen, but they did not run public passenger trains. They are listed by the primary industry they served.

Cement works 

Many of the cement works and their associated chalk pits had narrow gauge railways, particularly those in the South East of England. The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. (APCM, later Blue Circle Industries, and Lafarge) was the major producer of cement in the United Kingdom in the second half of the twentieth century and many of their plants used railways.

Lime works

Brickworks

Clay extraction

China clay extraction 

In Britain large deposits of Kaolinite (commonly known as "china clay") were found in Cornwall. Many industrial railways, both narrow gauge and standard gauge, were built to serve the china clay quarries and mines of this area.

Sand and gravel extraction 

The sand and gravel extraction industries made extensive use of narrow gauge railways, and several of these lasted into the 1980s – this was one of the last industries to make significant use of narrow gauge industrial railways in the UK.

Stone quarrying and mining

Slate 

The most well-known of the British industrial narrow gauge railways were those serving the slate industry of north Wales. Many of the quarries had internal tramways and feeder lines connecting them to transhipment points on local railways, rivers, roads or coastal ports.

Granite

Other stone

Coal 

The British coal mining industry made extensive use of narrow gauge railways, particularly underground where the restricted size of the tunnels meant that narrow gauge lines were and are particularly well suited. Many National Coal Board (NCB) mines used railways both underground and in the stock yards above ground. There were also many short lines at private mines, particularly in south Wales and the Forest of Dean regions.

Peat extraction

Other mineral extraction

Metal mining

Tin, lead and zinc

Iron 

Mainly ironstone quarries

Gold

See also 
British industrial narrow-gauge railways
British narrow-gauge railways
Industrial railway

References

Bibliography 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Narrow Gauge News, the journal of the Narrow Gauge Railway Society

External links 
 Narrow Gauge Railway Society
 Industrial Railway Society

Mining in the United Kingdom
 
Industrial railways in the United Kingdom
Quarrying in the United Kingdom
British, narrow gauge railways
Siadar Wave Power Station. The Siadar Wave Power Station (also known as Siadar Wave Energy Project or SWEP) was a proposed 4 MW wave farm  off the shore of Siadar Bay, in Lewis, Scotland.  The £30 million project, was to be built by Wavegen, received Scottish Government approval on 22 January 2009. Originally, the project was developed in cooperation with npower Renewables. However, in August 2011, npower Renewables left the project. In 2012 project was cancelled.

The wave station was proposed to be based on oscillating water column technology.  A  causeway will be constructed, and a breakwater with 10 concrete caissons, containing 36 to 40 Wells turbines, placed on the seabed.

See also

Wave Energy
Renewable energy in Scotland
European Marine Energy Centre
Aegir wave farm
Pelamis Wave Power
Aquamarine Power

References

External links
Siadar Wave Power Scheme at npower renewables 
npower submit plans for wave power scheme at Wavegen
Siadar Bay Wave Energy Project at renewableenergydev.com

2011 in Scotland
Isle of Lewis
Buildings and structures in the Outer Hebrides
Wave farms in Scotland
Proposed renewable energy power stations in Scotland
Credit Valley Conservation. Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario, Canada, responsible for protecting, restoring, and managing natural resources at the watershed level. CVC operates within the Credit River watershed and smaller adjacent watersheds that drain directly into Lake Ontario, as well as along a section of the Lake Ontario shoreline. Together, these areas make up CVC's jurisdiction. CVC is a member of Conservation Ontario.

CVC works in partnership with municipal governments, schools, businesses, and community organizations to deliver locally based environmental programs.

CVC receives its funding from municipal sources, as well as grants and donations made to the Credit Valley Conservation Foundation, self-generated user fees, and other service fees. CVC was founded in 1954 when much of the Credit River watershed was used for rural agriculture and pasture. Since then, there has been rapid urban development within the southern portion of the Credit River watershed, within the Cities of Mississauga and Brampton.

Conservation Areas
Credit Valley Conservation operates 11 conservation areas and other protected territories:
 Belfountain Conservation Area
 the Cheltenham Badlands
 Elora Cataract Trailway
 Island Lake Conservation Area
 Ken Whillans Resource Management Area
 Limehouse Conservation Area
 Meadowvale Conservation Area
 Rattray Marsh Conservation Area
 Silver Creek Conservation Area
 Terra Cotta Conservation Area
 Upper Credit Conservation Area

Activities
CVC is actively engaged in water management. The average daily flow of the Credit River is 690,000 cubic metres, 65% of which comes from groundwater. An estimated 750,000 residents in the  Credit River Watershed, 87% of whom live in the lower third of the watershed, in present-day Mississauga and Brampton. In 1999, 21% of the watershed was developed, and by 2020, 40% of the watershed will be developed (based on approved development and the official plans of the municipalities).

See also
Conservation Authority
Mississauga
Credit River
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

References

External links
Credit Valley Conservation

 
Credit River
Conservation authorities in Ontario
1954 establishments in Ontario
Regional Municipality of Peel
VFT. VFT, an abbreviation, may refer to:

Variable frequency transformer, a type of electricity transformer
Venus Flytrap, a variety of carnivorous plant
Vertical fire-tube boiler, a heat-transfer device used in steam engines
Very Fast Train, a proposed high-speed railway in Australia
Virtual field trip, a method used in online education
Virtual function table, a mechanism used in programming language
Vogel–Fulcher–Tammann equation, an equation used to describe the viscosity of liquids as a function of temperature
Simon Newton Dexter. Simon Newton Dexter (May 11, 1785, in Providence, Rhode Island – November 18, 1862, in Whitesboro, Oneida County, New York) was an American merchant and a New York politician.

Life
He was the son of Andrew Dexter, the first American manufacturer of cotton goods.

He matriculated at Brown University, but soon left that institution to engage in business in Boston. In 1815, he removed to Whitesboro, and in 1817 took part in the construction of a section of the Erie Canal. From 1824 to 1829, he was engaged in the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

On returning to Whitesboro he became agent of the Oriskany Manufacturing Company, and in 1832 assumed charge of the Dexter Company. He was also largely interested in manufactures elsewhere in the State of New York and in Elgin, Illinois.

In 1840, he was elected by the New York State Legislature one of the canal commissioners, and remained in office until 1842 when the new Democratic majority removed the Whig commissioners.

He was a trustee of Hamilton College, and for several years supported a professorship, giving the College in all about $32,000. He was President of the Whitestown Bank from 1833 to 1853, and Manager of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica from 1849 to 1862.

His papers are in the Cornell University Library.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Dexter was his uncle.  Andrew Dexter Jr. was his brother.

Legacy
Simon Newton Dexter is the namesake of Dexter, New York.

Notes

Sources
famousamericans.net/simonnewtondexter/ Bio from Appleton's Encyclopedia
 Obituary of his grandson Newton Dexter (1848–1899) in NYT on February 22, 1899
 Guide to the Simon Newton Dexter Papers
 History of Jefferson County, NY
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 42; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

1785 births
1862 deaths
Politicians from Providence, Rhode Island
Erie Canal Commissioners
People from Whitesboro, New York
New York (state) Whigs
Brown University alumni
Supersonic Software. Supersonic Software Ltd. is a British video game developer based in Leamington Spa, England. It was founded by former Codemasters employee Peter Williamson. It was acquired by Miniclip in 2021.

Games developed

References

External links
 

Video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game development companies
Companies based in Leamington Spa
Video game companies established in 1989
British companies established in 1989
1989 establishments in England
Verville Aircraft Company. The Verville Aircraft Company was a Detroit, Michigan based manufacturer of small airplanes and flying boats, which became bankrupt during the Great Depression. Alfred V. Verville started the corporation after working for multiple aviation companies. An innovative corporation, it could not survive the difficult financial crisis of the early 1930s.
The Verville Aircraft Company was located at 4815 Cabot Street, Detroit, Michigan, occupying the former Rickenbacker plant. Verville Aircraft was organized by Walter Briggs, Sr.,
president and chairman of Briggs Manufacturing Company. Barney Everett (Everitt) served as the president of the company. The treasurer was S. E. Poole.

History

First Airplane
The first dedicated passenger plane that Verville Aircraft produced was the Verville Air Coach.

After being acquired by Briggs, the manufacturer produced a light plane followed by the construction of two others.

The following designers worked for Verville Aircraft:
Louis G. Meister
Edgar A. Goff, Jr.
Peter Altman
Myron E. Zeller
Charles S. Knight (test pilot)

Insolvency

A judge in the chancery court in Wilmington, Delaware appointed a receiver for the firm in December 1931.

Aircraft
Verville Air Coach
Verville Sport Trainer AT

References

External links

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Privately held companies based in Michigan
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Detroit
1928 establishments in Michigan
1932 disestablishments in Michigan
Verville Aircraft
Verville Aircraft
New Imperial Model 76. The Model 76 was a New Imperial Motors Ltd motorcycle from England, marketed under the slogan "The King of Motors" between 1936 and 1939, when the company was turned over to wartime production.

Development
In the mid-1920s New Imperial were producing 300 machines a month and continuing to expand the Great Depression of the early 1930s.  Like many manufacturers of the time, New Imperial found it very difficult to maintain sales through the 1930s and even Bob Foster’s win on a unit-construction model in the 1936 Isle of Man TT (the last time that Great Britain won a Lightweight TT) failed to lead to the much needed sales. 

Following the TT win all 1937 models were designed with the same pioneering unit construction engine, although the design was modified so that there were separate compartments within the unit for engine and gearbox. 

The engine was a  overhead valve unit construction twin with a twin-port head. A range of different ignition systems options were offered the Model 76 was available in either standard trim, with a hand-operated four-speed gearbox, or from 1937 as a de-luxe version, with a foot-operated gearchange.

New Imperial ceased trading in 1938, and sold the company to Jack Sangster, owner of Ariel and Triumph motorcycles. Surviving examples prove that limited production continued even after the company was liquidated, however, being assembled from spare parts right up to the outbreak of war, when a former director of New Imperial, Solomon Joseph, negotiated the purchase of the company and moved the equipment to the Triumph works in Coventry to turn it to production for World War II and the Model 76 was finally discontinued.

References

External links
 New Imperial 1935 unit construction advert
 

Motorcycles of the United Kingdom
Standard motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in the 1930s
LiquidHD. LiquidHD technology was an architecture and a set of protocols for networking consumer electronics devices. It was designed to let consumers link their HDTVs, home theater components, PCs, gaming consoles, and mobile devices into local entertainment networks, where they could view high-definition digital content from any networked source device on any compliant display.
Silicon Image promoted LiquidHD in 2009 and sponsored a website for it that year.

Description
The LiquidHD architecture allowed network connections to be made via Ethernet, coaxial cable (i.e., MoCA or G.hn), 802.11 wireless, powerline communication (such as G.hn or other specifications such as HomePlug, HD-PLC or Universal Powerline Association), phone lines (HomePNA or G.hn) or HDMI, depending on the usage scenario and what connections were already available. Once devices were linked in a LiquidHD network, users could control them via a remote user interface, enabling sharing of source devices and facilitating activities such as pausing a program in one room and resuming it in another.

LiquidHD included protocols for:

 Automatic discovery and authentication of LiquidHD-enabled devices
 High-definition media streaming from live and stored sources across the network
 Remote access of any source device's user interface to any LiquidHD display device, and for a single remote control at each display to control all source devices on a network.
 Secure communication between connected devices
 Security and content protection, including digital rights management for consumers to play their legally-obtained content on any LiquidHD display, and protect the network from hostile attacks

Development began in the summer of 2007.

It was announced January 8, 2009 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
By September 2009 analysts observed that no major customers had adopted the technology.
After announcing declining sales in the Great Recession, the company replaced its chief executive in September 2009 as it was criticized for spreading itself over too many new initiatives.
Silicon Image mentioned the technology on its web site in 2010, but quietly dropped it in early 2011 under new chief executive Camillo Martino.

See also 
Digital Living Network Alliance

References

External links 
 Santo, Brian. “Silicon Image intros home tech network”, Communications, Engineering and Design Magazine, 2009-01-12. Retrieved on 2009-02-05.
 Carnoy, David. “Silicon Image introduces next-gen home AV wireless networking technology: LiquidHD”, cnet, 2009-01-08. Retrieved on 2009-02-05.

Digital electronics
High-definition television