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Livesey, Hargreaves and Company. Livesey, Hargreaves and Company was an English business involved in the textile industry during the late 18th century.

Business

The company took a lead in the mechanisation of printing cloth using a process that had been developed by Thomas Bell.  In 1783, Bell patented a method of printing on fabric from engraved cylinders, and by 1785 he was able to print in six colours by this process.  Before that time the printing of fabric had been by hand, and the hand printers had been demanding higher wages.  During the 1780s, the firm was the largest calico printer in Lancashire and was "one of the largest cotton manufacturing enterprises in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution".  The printing process was carried out at their factories at Bannister Hall and at Mosney, both in Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, Lancashire. The firm also had a large mill at Clitheroe, a factory, warehouse and offices in Manchester, a warehouse in London, and were involved in bleaching cloth at Hoghton. It also owned a coal mine at Standish to provide fuel for its enterprises, and commissioned work from handloom weavers working in their own homes (out-workers).

Collapse

The firm went bankrupt in 1788, with debts totalling £1.5 million (equivalent to £ million in ). It is thought that at the time they employed about 800 workers directly, and were providing "bread to 20,000 persons" (this would include direct employees, out-workers, and their dependants). The firm's bank was Byrom, Allen, Sedgwick and Place of Manchester, which had been founded in 1771. By 1780 it was managed solely by William Allen, who made extensive loans to Livesey, Hargreaves and Company; Allen was related by marriage to the Liveseys. Two days after the firm was declared bankrupt, the bank collapsed, and Allen was also bankrupt.

References

Textile manufacturers of England
Defunct manufacturing companies of England
Companies based in Lancashire
Bankruptcy in the United Kingdom
Companies disestablished in 1788
1788 disestablishments in England
Dongfeng Yangtse. Yangtse Motor Group Co., Ltd (扬子江汽车集团有限公司), formerly Dongfeng Yangtse Automobile (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. (东风扬子江汽车(武汉)有限责任公司), was a bus manufacturing company based in Wuhan, Hubei, founded in 2004.

History
Its roots trace back to 1929 when the Wuhan Bus Management office and repair shop was first set up.  It started manufacturing vehicles in 1950. By 1964, the company became the Wuhan Public Bus Factory, manufacturing buses.  In 1999, an agreement as signed with the Mercedes-Benz division in Thailand to develop new models of buses.

In 2004, the company was reorganized and named the Yangzijiang Dongfeng Automobile (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., commonly known as Dongfeng Yangtse Bus.

Buses are built under the Yangtse and Yangzijiang brands.

Dongfeng Yangtse era
On May 23, 2016, Yangzijiang Dongfeng Automobile (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. announced its renaming of the company to Yangtse Motor Group (扬子江汽车集团有限公司).

In September 2016, the first experimental hydrogen fuel cell bus, Taige, was completed at the factory. Its technological breakthrough lies in the use of a chemical absorbent to convert liquid hydrogen which absorbs and mixes it, and then uses a catalyst to reduce and release it, solving the problem of storage and transportation of hydrogen energy that is dangerous or costly. The traditional hydrogen dilemma is that it must be stored at low temperature or high pressure. Low temperature requires a lot of electricity. It is completely uneconomical. Although, it is cheap, it is also a high-priced product, and it has major safety hazards when it is popularized in the market for civilian use. The breakthrough technology lies in Professor Cheng Hansong, an expert of the Thousand Talents Program, who is the world's leading and original disruptive "normal temperature and normal pressure hydrogen storage technology", which can make use of the existing infrastructure such as gas stations and oil transportation systems, greatly reducing the hydrogen economy problems.

Models
WG6100NHA
WG6100NH0E
WG6101NQE
WG6110CHM4
WG6110NQC
WG6110NQE
WG6111NQC
WG6111NQE
WG6120BEVHM
WG6120CHA
WG6120NHAE
WG6120NHM4
WG6120PHEVAA
WG6121NQOE
WG6124BEVH
WG6810NQP
WG6850NHK
WG6940NQD

Trolley Buses
WG6120BHEVM

WG6124BHEVM

WG6120DHA

WG-D68U

References

External links
Dongfeng Yangtse Bus website

Bus manufacturers of China
Chinese companies established in 2004
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2004
Manufacturing companies based in Wuhan
Chinese brands
Alpi Syton AH 130. The Alpi Syton AH 130 is an Italian helicopter that was developed from the RotorWay Exec and is produced by Alpi Aviation of Pordenone.

Design and development
The RotorWay Exec was developed into a turbine-powered version in 1996 by AvioTecnica of Italy and marketed as the AvioTecnica ES-101 Raven. In 2008 the Raven design was acquired by Alpi and further developed.

The AH 130 externally resembles the RotorWay Exec. It features a single main rotor, a two-seats-in side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, skid-type landing gear and a  Solar T62 auxiliary power unit employed as a turboshaft engine. Its  diameter two-bladed rotor has a chord of . The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

Specifications

References

External links

Official website

2000s Italian sport aircraft
2000s Italian helicopters
Homebuilt aircraft
Alpi Aviation aircraft
Alert area. An Alert Area is a place of alert for military aircraft at United States Air Force bases. During the Cold War, bomber aircraft would be stationed on the Christmas trees within the area, ready to take off at moment's notice. Oftentimes, tanker aircraft would be stationed in a separate area of the base, and would take off along with their bomber counterparts. At the Alert Area at Loring Air Force Base, the area consisted of a forty acre high-security area located to the southeast corner of the runway, and bordered to the east by forest. It also contains a Christmas tree and mole hole, among other buildings.

References

United States Air Force
Panther (company). Panther GmbH is a film technical company situated in Aying, Munich. It develops and produces professional camera cranes and dollies. It built the first ever electro-mechanical camera dolly, the "Super Panther".  Company founder Erich Fitz received the 1990 Oscar "Scientific & Engineering Award".

History 

Panther GmbH was founded in 1986 by Erich Fitz. It specialized in the production, sales, and rental of film equipment. In 1990, Panther and its HTG GmbH subsidiary (founded in 1988), moved to Oberhaching. In 1991, two more rental outlets opened in Prague and Hamburg. In 1999 Fitz decided, because of the expansion, to build new premises, which opened in 2001.

In 2008, at the Cinec in Munich, Panther celebrated the 25th anniversary of producing Panther Dollies and presented the 1000th electro–mechanical dolly, which was built in gold for the occasion.

In 2010, Panther developed the Tristar and opened an outlet in Berlin. A year later, the Fitz family changed their strategy and ended their rental business as they did not want to compete with their customers. Panther Rental Prague was sold to ARRI. In 2012. Panther Rental points in Munich, Hamburg, and Berlin were sold to a subsidiary of Bavaria Studios and Production Services, to complete the strategy changes met in 2011.

Andreas Fitz, son of Erich, bought all shares from his family and became Executive President of the company. Thereafter, the company concentrated on the development and distribution of dollies and cranes.

Products 

The company produces film cranes, dollies, remote-controlled swivel and angle setups for cameras, tripods and support for cameras.

Panther established many patents for their products and developments.

 Linear column guiding
 Combi – wheels
 “Crab and Steer“ steering gear
 Foldable Dolly
 Fluid heads
 Film objective
 Transport system for camera cranes
 Pedestal
 High-low-turnstile
 Dolly platform system

Panther Prize 
Beginning in 1999, the company Panther GmbH presented the “Panther Prize“ for young talent. The prize is awarded during the International Festival of the Film High School in Munich. The jury chooses the best film from nominated short films. The winning director receives an award and a voucher for the rental of Panther-machines for their next production.

Awards 
 1990: Oscar: "Scientific and Engineering Award" (A.M.P.A.S.) for the worldwide first electro-mechanic camera dolly, Super Panther"
 1998: Cinec Award - for the "Evolution Dolly"
 1998: Golden Frog - "for substantial technical contribution"
 2002: Cinec Award - for the "Galaxy Crane"
 2006: Cinec Award - for the "Foxy Advanced Crane"
 2014 Cinec Award for the "Precision Levelling Track"

External links 
 Official Website

References 

Film and video technology
No. 140 Expeditionary Air Wing. No. 140 Expeditionary Air Wing is a deployable Expeditionary Air Wing of the Royal Air Force based at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, UK.

The current wing was established on 1 April 2006 the wing has history dating back to May 1944:

Second World War

No. 140 Airfield RAF

The wing was originally No. 140 Airfield RAF.

No. 140 (Bomber) Wing RAF

No. 140 Wing RAF was a formation of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. It comprised No. 21 Squadron RAF, No. 464 (RAAF) Squadron RAF and No. 487 (RNZAF) Squadron RAF. It carried out many notable low-level bombing operations, including Operation Jericho (Amiens prison) and Operation Carthage in Copenhagen.

No. 464 and No. 487 Squadrons were Article XV Squadrons, i.e.  they were Commonwealth squadrons which operated under the operational control of the Royal Air Force, which also was responsible e.g. for their pay.

Current use

Deployed to Ämari Air Base, Estonia from April to September 2023 for Operation Azotize with Typhoon FGR4 of No. 9 Squadron.

References

Citations

Bibliography

Wings of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War
Perry T. Egbert. Perry T. Egbert (April 22, 1893 – July 13, 1970) was an American engineer specializing in internal combustion engines, particularly diesel engines.  Most of his career was spent at the American Locomotive Company (ALCo), America's pre-eminent manufacturer of steam and diesel locomotives for more than forty years.

Egbert graduated from Cornell University in 1915 with a degree in mechanical engineering and, after a stint in the military during World War I, taught engineering there in 1919 and 1920. In 1921 he became ALCo's technical representative in East Asia, where his work included efforts to provide diesel engines for the Peking Suiyuan Railway. Following the acquisition of the firm of McIntosh & Seymour in 1929 he was placed in charge of ALCo's diesel engine development program.  He became manager of railroad diesel sales in 1934 and vice president in charge of diesel locomotive sales in 1944. After World War II, he led ALCo's shift from steam to diesel locomotive production.  He became president of the company in 1952.
Perry Egbert had 3 sons. Perry, Leigh and John (12/14/30- 12/08/67) . John married Marilyn Robinson. They had 3 children. Leigh (5/23/56), Perry(4/59) and Alexandra. Leigh married Lynn Pfuntner 7/2/77. They have 1 daughter Elizabeth (12/16/85). Perry has 2 daughters. Kristin and Shelby.

References

External links
 Perry Egbert Papers at Syracuse University
 Photograph of Egbert with Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, in the cab of an ALCo diesel engine, Schenectady Daily Gazette

American civil engineers
American railroad mechanical engineers
American railroad pioneers
American chief executives
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Locomotive builders and designers
1893 births
1970 deaths
American expatriates in China
Nakul-class tugboat. Nakul class of tugboats are series of service watercraft built by Tebma Shipyard Limited. (a subsidiary of Bharati Shipyard Ltd), for Indian navy during 2004. The vessels in the class have a rated capacity of 25 ton bollard pull. Propulsion is provided by Voith Schneider Propellers. It is a follow-up of Madan Singh class tugboat.

Ships in the class

Specifications
The specifications are from the website of the manufacturer Tebma Shipyard Ltd.

Length: 32.5 m
Breadth: 9.50 m
Depth: 4 m
Speed: 12 knots
Bollard pull: 25 tonnes
Displacement: 373.14 tonnes
Draft: 2.8 m
Output :2 x 1320 kW
Main engines: Wartsila 8 L20

See also
Tugboats of the Indian Navy

References

 
Auxiliary ships of the Indian Navy
Tugs of the Indian Navy
Auxiliary tugboat classes
B.C. Dutt-class tugboat. B.C. Dutt class of tugboats are series of service watercraft built by Tebma Shipyard Limited (a subsidiary of Bharati Shipyard Ltd), for Indian navy during 1998-99. The vessels in the class have a rated capacity of 25 ton bollard pull. The propulsion is provided by Schottel Rudder Propeller (SRP). Bhim class tugboat is a follow-up order of B.C. Dutt class tugboat.

Vessels in the class

Specifications
Length: 28 m
Breadth: 9.40 m
Depth: 4 m
Speed: 12.5 knots
Bollard pull: 25 tonnes
Displacement: 355 tonnes
Draft: 1.6 m
Output: 2 X 933 kW
Main engines: Cummins KTA 3067 M

See also
Tugboats of the Indian Navy

References

 
Auxiliary ships of the Indian Navy
Tugs of the Indian Navy
Auxiliary tugboat classes
Millicode. In computer architecture, millicode is a higher level of microcode used to implement part of the instruction set of a computer.  The instruction set for millicode is a subset of the machine's native instruction set, omitting those instructions that are implemented using millicode, plus instructions that provide access to hardware not accessible using the native instruction set.  Millicode routines are used to implement more complex instructions visible to the user of the system.  Implementation of millicode may require a special processor mode called millimode that provides its own set of registers, and possibly its own special instructions invisible to the user.

The term millicode was introduced to literature by Klingman in 1981, although terms like nanocode had been in use since the early 1970's when describing computer architectures with hierarchical implementations of instructions. Various computers have used millicode in their designs, such as the System/390 9672-G4 processor.  The following are cited as advantages of millicode:
 More complex instructions can easily be constructed from several millicode instructions.
 Construction of a compatible line of computer models with different performance is simplified. 
 Millicode instructions can bypass CPU cache to improve performance.
 Instructions can update multiple storage locations without concern for being interrupted.
 Millicode can execute instructions at a higher privilege level without involving the operating system.
 Millicode can provide  a complex instruction as if it were a subroutine, making user code smaller.

The "i370" code for the "Capitol" chipset used in some ES/9370 models was similar to millicode, in that it was written as a combination of System/370 instructions and code that had access to special hardware features.

See also
 PALcode

References

External links
  

Central processing unit
Instruction processing
Sisu KB-46. Sisu KB-46 is a prototype of a three-axle, six-wheel-driven off-road lorry made by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Suomen Autoteollisuus (SAT) in 1968. Its capacity is three tonnes and it was produced after an assignment of the Finnish Defence Forces to tow heavy cannons.

Technical data 
The vehicle is powered by a 13.12-litre V8 Leyland O.801 engine, of which Sisu model code is BY. KB-46 was the first Sisu powered by this engine type.

The chassis is built on a rigid tubular frame which also consists the fuel tank. The vehicle is equipped with Sisu Nemo hydraulic transmission system for trailer.

The axles are equipped with CTI system and special Goodyear tyres with an extra small air volume.

The prototype got a rectangular shaped concept cabin that came later into production in Sisu M-series. An additional cabin for crew was installed in the Defence Forces' Transportation Vehicle Depot.

The vehicle kerb weight is 8,000 kg and the payload in terrain is just 3,000 kg. The maximum weight for a normal trailer is 5,000–7,000 kg and for a driven trailer 7,000–10,000 kg.

Characteristics 
The prototype vehicle toured with a Tampella 122 K 60 cannon, fitted with hydraulic drive, in agricultural fairs in Finland where it was displayed at the Defence Forces' stand. Neither the vehicle, nor the cannon entered serial production; KB-46 was designed in a short time and there was used many new technical solutions without previous experience. Hence, there appeared several defects. Also the engine type proved technically failed.

KB-46 was never homologated but the prototype stayed in use of the Defence Forces. The military personnel got frustrated at repairing the vehicle which was repeatedly broken and deliberately procrastinated its repairing in the 1970s until it was, after standing useless for a few years at the depot, taken to a museum.

References

External links 
 Photo 1
 Photo 2

Kb46
Military trucks of Finland
Military vehicles introduced in the 1960s
Vehicles introduced in 1968
Barium permanganate. Barium permanganate is a chemical compound, with the formula Ba(MnO4)2. It forms violet to brown crystals that are sparingly soluble in water.

Preparation
Barium permanganate may be produced by disproportionation of barium manganate in a mildly acidic solution, including solutions carbon dioxide or sulfuric acid: 

3 BaMnO4 + 2 CO2 → Ba(MnO4)2 + 2 BaCO3 + MnO2
3 BaMnO4 + 2 H2SO4 → Ba(MnO4)2 + 2 BaSO4 + MnO2 + 2 H2O

It can also be prepared by oxidation of barium manganate with strong oxidants. Preparations relying on aqueous reactions of barium manganate are extremely slow process due to the low solubility of the manganate.

Another way to synthesize barium permanganate is by the reaction between silver permanganate and barium chloride. Highly pure samples can be obtained from the similar reaction between potassium permanganate and aluminium sulfate to form aluminium permanganate, which is then reacted with a stoichiometric amount of barium hydroxide.

Reactions
Barium permanganate is a strong oxidizer. It is thermally stable up to 180 °C, above which it decomposes in two stages between 180–350 and 500–700 °C.

2 Ba(MnO4)2 → 2 BaMnO3 + 2 MnO2 + 3 O2
4 BaMnO3 → 4 BaO + 2 Mn2O3 + O2

The decomposition has been shown to proceed at slow rates above 160 °C, and that irradiation with UV or X-rays lowers this temperature. Crystal defects and impurities play a role in the mechanism.

Permanganic acid can be prepared by the reaction of dilute sulfuric acid with a solution barium permanganate, the insoluble barium sulfate byproduct being removed by filtering:
Ba(MnO4)2 + H2SO4 → 2 HMnO4 + BaSO4
The sulfuric acid used must be dilute; reactions of permanganates with concentrated sulfuric acid yield the anhydride, manganese heptoxide.

References

Barium compounds
Permanganates
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. The Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering. It covers all aspects of earthquake engineering. It was established in 2003 and the editor-in-chief is Atilla Ansal (Ozyegin University).

Abstracting and indexing
This journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.827.

References

External links 
 

Earthquake engineering
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Engineering journals
Academic journals established in 2003
Strontium chromate. Strontium chromate is an inorganic compound with the formula .

Preparation 
Strontium chromate is prepared from strontium chloride and sodium chromate, or from strontium carbonate and sodium dichromate.

Reactions 
Strontium chromate is approximately 30 times more soluble in water at 100 °C than at room temperature.  Therefore, the yellow strontium chromate can be suspended in a hot solution of a soluble sulfate to digest until fully converted to the much less soluble and white strontium sulfate, leaving the chromate or dichromate in solution.

Uses 
 Corrosion inhibitor in pigments
 In electrochemical processes to control sulphate concentration of solutions
 Colorant in polyvinyl chloride resins
 Pyrotechnics
 Aluminium flake coatings
 As an anti-corrosive primer for zinc, magnesium, aluminium, and alloys used in aircraft manufacture.
 As a pigment used in oil painting named strontium yellow.

References 

Chromates
Strontium compounds
Inorganic pigments
Mustansir Barma. Mustansir Barma is an Indian scientist specializing in statistical physics. He was former director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research  from 2007 to 2014.

Early life
Mustansir Barma was born in Mumbai to a Dawoodi Bohra family.

Awards and honours
 Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy (1980).
 Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1983 – 86).
 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences awarded by the CSIR (1995).
 Honorary faculty member, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (1998 – 2001).
 DAE Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture in Physics (2004).
 S.N. Bose Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress (2007).
 J.C. Bose Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (2007).
 Seventh Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2009).
 R.S. Goyal Prize for Physics (2006), awarded in 2010.
 Padma Shri Award (2013)

References

20th-century Indian physicists
Dawoodi Bohras
Indian Ismailis
Living people
Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
1950 births