omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Creatures (1996 video game). Creatures is an artificial life simulation packaged as a video game developed by British studio Creature Labs for Windows, and was ported to Macintosh, PlayStation, and Game Boy Advance. It is the first game in the Creatures series.

Gameplay
Creatures is a game in which the player can hatch and raise anthropomorphic creatures known as Norns.

Notably, the environment was actually a physically constructed model, carefully photographed. This was to keep graphics costs low.

Creatures is an artificial life simulation where the user hatches small furry animals and teaches them how to behave, or leaves them to learn on their own. These "Norns" can talk, feed themselves, and protect themselves against vicious creatures called Grendels. It was the first popular application of machine learning in an interactive simulation. Neural networks are used by the creatures to learn what to do. The game is regarded as a breakthrough in artificial life research, which aims to model the behavior of creatures interacting with their environment.

According to Millennium, every copy of Creatures contains a unique starting set of eggs, whose genomes are not replicated on any other copy of the game. An expansion pack, called "Life Kit #1" was released for purchase later.

Development
The game was in development for four years.

Reception

The PlayStation version received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. However, Next Generation said that the PC version "offers one of the most obsessive and entertaining experiences anyone can have in front of the computer." The Electric Playground gave the same PC version universal acclaim, over a month before it was released Stateside.

The PC version sold 100,000 units by November 1997. At the time, John Moore of Mindscape explained that the company "expect[s] to sell more than 200,000 Creatures by the end of the year." Global sales of the game neared 400,000 units by February 1998.

Legacy
The model built during development and photographed as the game's backdrop, is held at The Centre for Computing History, where it is on permanent display.

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1996 video games
Classic Mac OS games
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Creatures (video game series)
Game Boy Advance games
Mindscape games
PlayStation (console) games
Swing! Entertainment games
Time Warner Interactive games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Alpi Pioneer 400. The Alpi Pioneer 400 is an Italian four-seat light aircraft, designed produced by Alpi Aviation, of Pordenone. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design
The Alpi Pioneer series of light aircraft, 200, 300 and 400 are developments of the Vidor Champion V or Asso V, designed by Giuseppe Vidor and renamed Pioneer, of which, the Pioneer 400 is the largest seating four. Quattrocento (four hundred) is often included in the name.

The Pioneer 400 is a low wing monoplane, with a trapezoidal plan wing that has sweep only on the trailing edge and winglets at its tips. The wing structure is wooden with a single box-spar and is covered with pre-preg carbon fibre. Ailerons occupy about half the span; inboard, slotted flaps fill the rest. Both ailerons and flaps are fabric covered.

The fuselage and empennage have a wooden structure and carbon fibre skin. The engine used is the 73.5 kW (98.6 hp) Rotax 912S flat-four, driving a variable pitch propeller. The cabin is over the wings, with two pairs of side-by-side seats. Entry is by two upward-opening doors and there is a baggage space behind the rear seats. At the rear the vertical surfaces are straight-edged and swept, with a long dorsal strake. The horizontal surfaces are approximately trapezoidal in plan, with an unswept leading edge. Both the rudder and elevators are fabric covered. The rudder is balanced and both it and the port elevator carry trim tabs.

The Pioneer has retractable tricycle landing gear though the nose-wheel remains partially exposed when retracted. An emergency ballistic parachute is an option.

Development

The date of the first flight of the Pioneer 400 is March 27th, 2009, and it first appeared in public at the 2009 Friedrichshafen airshow held 2–5 April.  Though briefly registered in Italy, by 11 June 2009 the first prototype had been re-registered in the UK as G-CGAJ.  It received type approval in late 2010 and full approval in August 2012.

Although some examples were made in the ultralight category (MTOW 600 Kg), the Pioneer 400 was created to be a 4-seater, designated Experimental has an MTOW of . 

54 Pioneer 400s had been built by October 2024.

Variants
 Pioneer 400 915iS MTOW , experimental category, equipped with Rotax 915iS 140 Hp engine
 Pioneer 400 916iS MTOW , experimental category, equipped with Rotax 916iS 160 Hp engine

Specification (400 916iS)

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2000s Italian ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Light-sport aircraft
Alpi Aviation aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Iron(II) chromite. Iron(II) chromite is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula FeCr2O4.

Preparation
It is created by the sintering of chromium(III) oxide and iron(II) oxide at 1600 °C. It also occurs in nature as the mineral chromite, though with many impurities.

Uses

It is used as a commercial source of chromium and its compounds.  It is also used as a catalyst in the synthesis of hydrogen (H2) from the reaction between carbon monoxide and water vapor.

Safety
Its dust particles may cause irritation; inhalation and ingestion of its dust should be avoided. Swallowing larger amounts may cause injury.

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Iron(II) compounds
Chromium(III) compounds
Chromium–oxygen compounds
Iron(II) molybdate. Iron(II) molybdate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula FeMoO4.

Synthesis
Iron(II) molybdate is prepared by the reaction of iron(II) chloride or iron(II) sulfate and sodium molybdate.

Due to its very low aqueous solubility, iron(II) molybdate precipitates out as a brown powder from the above reactions, which can then be obtained by filtration.

Applications 
FeMoO4 has been used as relatively stable active material for anodes in Li-ion batteries for conversion reaction, as anode material in aqueous supercapacitors due to fast redox reactions and as catalyst for oxygen evolution in alkaline solutions.

Safety
Iron(II) molybdate is toxic and may cause irritation. It should not be released into the environment. Inhalation of dusts should be avoided.

References

Iron(II) compounds
Molybdates
Kenji Ohmori. is a Japanese physicist and chemist. 
National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan (NIMS), Institute for Molecular Science (IMS)

Education and career 
1987 Graduated from Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
1992 Ph. D, The University of Tokyo
1992 Research Associate, Tohoku University
2001 Associate Professor, Tohoku University
2003 Full Professor, IMS
2007–2010 Director, Laser Research Center for Molecular Science, IMS
2010–present Chairman, Department of Photo-Molecular Science, IMS
2004–2005 Visiting Professor, Tohoku University
2007–2008 Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2009–2011 Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo
2014–2016 Visiting Professor, University of Strasbourg
2012–present Visiting Professor(Humboldt Awardee), University of Heidelberg

Research 
Kenji Ohmori has succeeded in designing and visualizing spatiotemporal images given by the interference of matter waves of atoms in a molecule with picometer and femtosecond resolution [1,2]. The precision of this processing is the highest to date, higher than that of the current nanotechnology by three orders of magnitudes. This ultrahigh-precision processing has been implemented with the temporal oscillations of laser electric fields engineered with attosecond precision and imprinted on the matter waves of atoms and electrons in a molecule. He has utilized this technique to develop a molecular computer in which a single 0.3-nanometer-size molecule can calculate 1000 times faster than the current fastest supercomputer [3,4]. He has also developed an ultrafast quantum simulator that can simulate non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems in one nanosecond, introducing a novel concept where he has combined his ultrafast coherent control with attosecond precision and ultracold atoms cooled down to temperatures close to absolute zero[5].

Honors and awards 
 1998　Award by Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology
 2007　JSPS Prize
 2007　Japan Academy Medal
 2008　Norman Hascoe Distinguished Lecturer, University of Connecticut, USA
 2009　Fellow of the American Physical Society
 2012　Humboldt Prize
 2017　Matsuo Foundation Hiroshi Takuma Memorial Prize
 2018　Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
 2021　National Medal with Purple Ribbon

References

External links 
 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) 
 Institute for Molecular Science (IMS)
 Kenji Ohmori, Interview in YouTube

1962 births
Living people
People from Kumamoto
Japanese physicists
Japanese chemists
University of Tokyo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology
Academic staff of Tohoku University
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Catalytic combustion. Catalytic combustion is a chemical process which uses a catalyst to speed desired oxidation reactions of fuel and so reduce the formation of undesired products, especially pollutant nitrogen oxide gases (NOx) far below what can be achieved without catalysts. The process was discovered in the 1950s by Catalytic Combustion LLC.

Chemical process

Catalysts may be used to control combustion reactions in the following ways:
 fuel preparation, such as splitting long molecules into shorter ones;
 fuel oxidation to release heat energy;
 the destruction of pollutant gases in the exhaust.

Technology

Catalytic combustion was developed by Norb Ruff in the 1950s. He founded Catalytic Combustion LLC in the 1950s where he created and patented the first metal catalyst. Other early work was carried out by researchers at Acurex, Westinghouse, NASA and the United States Air Force. The technique was revisited in the 1990s, leading to two types of catalytic system: Catalytica's fuel-lean approach, and Precision Combustion's fuel-rich approach.

See also

 Gas chromatography: Detectors
 Lanny D. Schmidt

References 

Catalysis
Chemical processes
Jet engine technology
Panasonic Life Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.. Panasonic Life Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian electrical equipment company. It is the largest manufacturer of modular and non-modular electrical switches in India. Aside from switches, it also manufactures low voltage switchgear, wires and cables, light and fans among other things.

History
Established in 1963 as Anchor Electricals Pvt. Ltd., now Panasonic Life Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Panasonic Corporation of Japan. Panasonic acquired Anchor, the 50-year-old Indian family-owned electrical equipment brand, in 2007.  The Company offers wires, cables, switchgears, lights, luminaries, fans, circuit breakers, heat and smoke detectors, video door phones, and other electrical products. It also sells home automation products from Panasonic.

The company's new manufacturing unit has been built at Daman, India. The investment for the plant has been Rs 200 crores and will produce a complete range of wiring devices. The plant's current production capacity is of 240 million units. For the first two years, the products manufactured at Daman will cater to the domestic market. By 2015 the company was expecting 5 percent of their revenues to come from exports. The factory has adopted features like installation of LED lighting, solar panels and use of treated sewage water.

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Panasonic Corporation brands
Switches
Electronics companies established in 1963
1963 establishments in Maharashtra
2007 mergers and acquisitions
Steve Divnick. Steve Divnick is an inventor and businessman. His patented inventions include the "Spiral Wishing Well" (1985) seen at various museums across the United States, and a smaller version for individuals. He has developed a boat lift, the DivnickLift, for docking small vessels onto larger boats. His company Divnick International Group also invented, patented and manufactures an adjustable-loft telescopic golf club and a range of other golf clubs. His most recent invention is "Golf Ebikes" that allow golfers to ride an ebike directly to their own shot rather than sitting and waiting half the time watching a cart-mate play. They include a quick-attach side-mount bag carrier that tilts out and becomes the solid kick stand.

Spiral wishing well
This is a waterless product which allows people launch coins on a spiral path onto the smooth fiberglass surface of the vortex funnel. The coins spin faster and faster as they cling to the nearly vertical throat of the funnel in a blur of speed before they drop into the locked base. The coin revenue is kept as a donation by the organisation who owns the well. It therefore has similar functionality to a traditional wishing well without the size and water. In 1987, Popular Science reported the typical take was $5–$25 per day, with one Salvation Army branch reporting a peak of $532 in one day.

According to documentation on the Spiral Wishing Well website, the first Well they sold was in 1985 to the United States Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio where it has had over $2 million tossed into it. Many locations passed the $100,000 amount. The first one-day record was $532 at a Kmart store, another at a small school that raised $7,352, and a church that raised $40,979.

The first Well that Divnick made was as an offering device for the children in his church. He began to see the potential as a non-profit fund raising device in public locations, and the company has shipped thousands of Wells all over the world where they have raised in excess of $200 million for charity. 100% of the revenue stays with the charity. Divnick and his company never receives any portion of the coins tossed into the Wells.

Many of the waterless wishing wells are sponsored by individuals or companies. Since they are placed in retail and other foot-traffic locations, they provide significant positive community relations for the sponsors.

The Wells are also popular with science teachers who use the company's Student Guide to teach topics such as tornadoes, whirlpools, planetary orbits, and the physics of a vortex.

References

External links
Divnick International website

20th-century American inventors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Dynapac. Dynapac is a Swedish multinational engineering company located in Karlskrona. The company was founded in 1934 and today has subsidiaries in seven countries. Dynapac produces pavers, mobile feeders, rollers and planers. Since October 2017 it is part of the French Fayat Group.

History
It was founded in 1934 as AB Vibro-Betong in Stockholm. In 1936 the vibratory compactor was developed by a mechanical engineer Hilding Svenson. In 1940 the company name changed to AB Vibro-Verken.

In 1947 it launched the first vibratory plate compactor, which weighed 1.5 tonnes, being nicknamed the frog. It opened its research laboratory in 1948 and manufactured the first vibratory road roller in 1953. The site in Karlskrona opened in 1960, which made heavy rollers and had the company's technical centre. The CA 25 road roller introduced in 1970 became the world's leading compaction roller. It changed its name to Dynapac Maskin AB in 1973; at this moment the company rapidly expanded its product range.

Acquisitions

 1978 Salco (Sweden)
 1979 Vibratechniques (France)
 1981 Watanabe (Japan)
 1995 Demag Schrader (Germany)

In 2007 Dynapac joined the Atlas Copco Group. In 2017 Dynapac changed its colour scheme to red, white and grey due to the acquiration by the Fayat Group.

Organization
Dynapac is situated in Karlskrona in Sweden. Its main sites are Karlskrona and Wardenburg in Germany.

Manufacturing sites

 Wardenburg, Germany
 Karlskrona, Sweden
 Tianjin, China
 Pune, India
 Sorocaba, Brazil

Distribution centers 

 Hoeselt, Belgium
 Shanghai, China
 Charlotte, US

Products
Dynapac offers a variety of products in the following sectors:

 Compaction (single drum vibratory rollers, double drum vibratory rollers, combi rollers, steel drum rollers, pneumatic rollers, tamping compactor, trench rollers, duplex rollers)
 Paving (compact pavers, city pavers, commercial pavers, large pavers, highway pavers, tracked pavers, wheeled pavers, mobile feeders, screeds)
 Milling (compact and high capacity planers)

Gallery

External links 

 Official website

References

Manufacturing companies established in 1934
Construction equipment manufacturers of Sweden
Karlskrona
Multinational companies headquartered in Sweden
Companies based in Blekinge County
Swedish brands
2017 mergers and acquisitions
Swedish companies established in 1934
Legrand-Simon LS.60. The Legrand-Simon LS.60 is a single-engine, high-wing monoplane seating two side-by-side.  It was built in France in the early 1960s in response to a government competition for a club trainer.  It won the competition but nevertheless failed to go into production; only the prototype, which still flies, was completed.

Design and development

In the late 1950s a collaboration between Paul Legrand, an aviation engineer employed by SNECMA and Michel Simon of Breguet Aviation led to the LS.50 two seat light aircraft, built as a one-off prototype.  They developed this into the LS.60 which was intended for production and was entered into a government competition for a club trainer.

The LS.60 has a high, braced wing of constant chord, mounted with 5° of dihedral.  It has two plywood spars with a plywood-Klégécell (a structural foam) torsion box between them and light alloy leading edges. There are full span, fixed slots on the leading edges and wooden, slotted ailerons and flaps.  The wings are braced with a single strut on each side to the lower fuselage.  The central fuselage is steel framed, with a cabane which forms the upper cabin and joins the wings.  Below there is a steel U-shape cross member which links the two sides of the cabane and carries attachment points for the seats, controls, undercarriage and wing struts.  The fuselage is rectangular in section, the forward part covered with a ply-Klégécell sandwich and the rear sides and bottom with plywood alone. The upper side is fabric covered.  The cowling over the 67 kW (90 hp) Continental C90 flat four engine, which drives a two blade propeller, is glass fibre.  The fin is an integral part of the fuselage structure and, like the cantilever horizontal tail is ply covered over a wooden structure; only the rudder is fabric covered.  The tail surfaces are straight edged and the tailplane is placed at mid fuselage and well to the rear, with the rudder moving above it and its leading edge under the rudder hinge.   Both rudder and elevators carry trim tabs.

The SL.60's underwing cabin provides dual control from the side-by-side configuration seats, accessed by doors on each side which have full width, narrow longitudinal bulges to provide extra elbow room.  Baggage storage is under the seats.  The undercarriage is fixed and conventional, with mainwheels on hinged cantilever tube steel legs which have horizontal extensions under the fuselage that are rubber sprung to the centre structure. The mainwheels have brakes and the tailwheel is steerable.

The prototype LS.60 was built at the Breguet factory and first flew on 27 April 1961.  It was declared competition winner and production of 200 aircraft was anticipated, but this did not happen and only the prototype was ever built.

Operational history

The sole LS.60, F-PJSA (previously F-BJSA and F-WJSA) was flying in France as recently as 2006 and remained on the French register in 2010.

Specifications

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1960s French sport aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1961
HP Flexible Data Center. HP Flexible Data Center, also termed FlexDC, is a modular data center built from prefabricated components by Hewlett-Packard and introduced in 2010. It is housed in five large buildings that form the shape of a butterfly. The Flexible DC looks like a traditional building, but it is fabricated off-site in order to circumvent the two years it often takes for traditional building construction. The building consists of a central admin area (the Core), surrounded by 1-4 data halls (the Quadrants). FDC offers cooling options that are optimal for each type of climate.

The FlexDC product line follows from HP's acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities in November 2007. HP currently positions FlexDC at the top end of their modular datacenter product line (above their PODs, which are housed in shipping containers), up to 3.6MW in capacity per facility.

References

External links
 Press Release: HP Flexible Data Center 

Data centers
Flexible Data Center
Modular datacenter
Alexander Just. Alexander Friedrich Just (12 April 1874, in Bremen – 30 May 1937, in Budapest) was an Austro-Hungarian chemist and inventor. Later, in Hungary he used the name Just Sándor Frigyes. In 1904 with Austro-Hungarian Franjo Hanaman he was the first to develop and patent an incandescent light bulb with a tungsten filament, made by extruding a paste of tungsten powder and a carbonaceous binder to produce a fine thread, then removing the carbon by heating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and water vapors.  Just and Hanaman received a Hungarian patent in 1904, and later US Patent 1,018,502. In 1905, Just and Hanaman patented a process for producing tungsten filaments by plating carbon filaments with tungsten, then removing the carbon by heating. These early tungsten lamps were more efficient than a carbon filament lamp, because they could operate at a high temperature, due to the high melting point of tungsten. The tungsten was, however, so brittle that these lamps were of limited practical use. It was supplanted by the drawn tungsten filament lamp, developed in 1910 by William David Coolidge.

References

External links 
 NY-Times 16 April 1916 about Just (pdf)
 

1874 births
1937 deaths
Inventors from Austria-Hungary
20th-century German chemists
Hungarian chemists
Scientists from Budapest
Scientists from Bremen (city)
Chemists from Austria-Hungary
Pingsheng Bridge. The Pingsheng Bridge () is single tower, single span self-anchored suspension bridge located in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China. Opened in 2006, the bridge has a main span of .

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20130619212856/http://e.crpcec.com/tabid/1421/InfoID/16064/frtid/1354/Default.aspx
http://www.crbbi.com/En/Product/list_info.php?inid=1286339042

Bridges in Guangdong
Suspension bridges in China
Bridges completed in 2006
Transport in Guangdong
Buildings and structures in Foshan
Self-anchored suspension bridges
Bridges over the Pearl River (China)
2006 in Foshan