omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
J. Waldo Smith. Jonas Waldo Smith (March 9, 1861 – October 14, 1933) was an American civil engineer and chief engineer on the Board of Water Supply of New York from 1905 to 1922. He was awarded the 1918 John Fritz Medal.

Biography

Youth, education and early career 
Waldo was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts as the youngest son of Francis Smith and Abigail Prescott (Baker) Smith. After attending the Phillips Academy, he studied civil engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1887.

Waldo had started his career as chief engineer of the water works of Lincoln, Massachusetts in 1868 at the age of 17. From 1881 he had been assistant in office of the civil engineering company Essex Company and Lawrence. During his studies at MIR he had been  assistant in the Holyoke Water Power Company Essex Company in Lawrence in the summers, and after his graduation in 1887 he continued to work there for another three years.

Further career and recognitions 

In 1890 Waldo joined E. Jersey Water Company, where he became assistant of Clemens Herschel. In the first two years they designed the dams of the Pequannock watershed in the Pequannock River. Still with the company in 1892 he was put in charge of the Passaic Water Company, Paterson as Principal assistant engineer, and later served as engineer at the Montclair Water Company, and at the Acquackanonk Water Company until 1900.

In 1900 Waldo was appointed chief engineer at the E. Jersey Water Company. Here he directed the design and construction of a "mechanical filterstation plant at Little Falls, the largest and most modern plant of its kind in the United States at its completion."

From 1903 to 1905 he was chief engineer in the aqueduct commissioner of New York, where he assisted in the completion of the construction of the New Croton Dam. From 1905 to 1922 he served at the Board of Water Supply of New York as Chief engineer.

In 1918 Waldo was awarded the honorary Doctor of Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. In the same year he also received the John Fritz Medal.

He died at his home in Manhattan on October 14, 1933.

Publications 
 Smith, J. Waldo. "The Catskill Water Supply System." Journal (American Water Works Association) 5.2 (1918): 91-99.
 Smith, J. Waldo, and W. W. Brush. "Repairs to Risers in the Shafts of the City Tunnel of the Catskill Aqueduct (with discussion)." Journal (American Water Works Association) 6.1 (1919): 46-53.
 Smith, J. Waldo. "Schoharie development of the Catskill Water Supply System for New York City." Journal (American Water Works Association) 6.4 (1919): 639-653.

References

External links 

 J. Waldo Smith, City of Vancouver Archives
 J. Waldo Smith, Chief Engineer, NYC Watershed Retrospective
 J. Waldo Smith Hydraulic Fellowship, ASCE

1861 births
1933 deaths
American civil engineers
MIT School of Engineering alumni
People from Lincoln, Massachusetts
John Fritz Medal recipients
Clark C. Abt. Clark C. Abt (born 31 July 1929) is a German-born American researcher. He became an American citizen in 1945, at age 16, and is known for first formalizing the concept and usages of serious games.

Biography 
Abt left Germany for the United States in 1937. In 1947, he applied as an aeronautics student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1951. He then served four months in the merchant navy as a seaman, then spent a year at Johns Hopkins University as an English teacher, eventually obtaining a master's degree in the Writing, Discourse and Drama Department for his thesis, titled A Year of Poems. In 1965, he earned a PhD from MIT in political science. He founded Abt Associates immediately afterwards.

He married Wendy Peter on November 3, 1971, fathering a son and daughter.  His son is Thomas Abt, a senior research fellow focusing on evidence-informed crime research at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Works 
Abt is known for his book Serious Games (1970), where he formally established a basis for the concept of serious game.

In this work and subsequent ones, he described sports games, role playing games and (then marginal) computer games as mediums for educative, political or marketing ideas. This interest probably stemmed from Abt's involvement with the development of TEMPER, an early computer wargame designed for a Cold War context.

References

External links 
 Clark C. Abt - Abt Associates Founder, President and Treasurer (1965-1985), Chairman of the Board (1986-2006) and Chairman Emeritus

1929 births
Living people
20th-century American educational theorists
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
Stephen McLin. Stephen McLin was a longtime executive in the banking industry who came to the industry from an engineering, rather than a finance background.

McLin, the oldest of six children, was the son of an Air Force doctor. He grew up moving every few years, including almost three years in Wiesbaden, Germany, where his father was chief of surgery. Returning to the United States, McLin went to high school in Laredo, Texas, and graduated in 1964. McLin's father was then named hospital commander at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois, so McLin went to college at the nearby University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He majored in chemical engineering (now called the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and graduated with a bachelor of science in 1968.

Career
After graduation, McLin took a job with Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) in Anaheim, California. After working there for a year, McLin attended Stanford University and earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering (1970). Along the way he discovered he was more interested in finance, so then stayed at Stanford and earned an MBA in 1972.
 
McLin worked much of his career at Bank of America (BofA), buying and selling other companies. He started out as assistant vice president in the cashiers division and in seven years rose to become BofA's top strategist. His first major deal was BofA's purchase of Charles Schwab Corporation, a major discount broker, in 1981. This transaction developed into what New York Times reporter Tom Friedman called a “historic test case for Federal banking laws.” McLin also “engineered” the purchase of failing Seattle-based bank, Seafirst, which enabled Bank of America to enter a state outside California, where it was based. McLin invented a financial structure, which he called “shrink-to-fit financing,” that protected BofA if Seafirst's losses in the energy sector became even worse than they already were.,

In 1985 McLin was BankAmerica's third-highest-paid executive, receiving $285,330 in salary. In 1986 McLin became executive vice president and BankAmerica Corp. a subsidiary of Bank of America. In the course of his career at Bank of America, America First and STM Holdings, LLC, McLin negotiated more than 40 transactions, acquisitions and sales, which represented total assets in excess of $32 billion.

In 1987, at the age of 40, McLin left BofA to become president of America First Financial Fund. There he raised $100 million in equity capital to buy two Northern California S&Ls. When America First shut down a decade later it had returned more than $500 million in dividends and gains to its shareholders.

McLin retired at age 51, created the McLin Family Foundation, and served on the Schwab board from 1988 to 2019.

References

1946 births
Living people
American bankers
American financial businesspeople
American philanthropists
Bank of America executives
People from St. Louis
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Stephen E. Nagler. Stephen E. Nagler is a Canadian condensed matter and materials science physicist. Nagler is the Corporate Research Fellow of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Director of the laboratory's Quantum Condensed Matter Division. He is an adjunct professor with the Department of Physics at the University of Tennessee.

Nagler’s primary research interest is in condensed matter physics, especially quantum materials. He contributed to neutron scattering techniques, especially inelastic scattering to investigate the dynamics of materials. Nagler also worked with high resolution and time resolved x-ray scattering methods, using both in-house and synchrotron based x-ray sources.

Nagler contributed to the study of excitation (magnetic) and critical behavior (quantum) in materials science, as well as the study of non-equilibrium thermodynamics systems, quantum fluctuations, spin gap systems, and excitations in condensed matter.

Education 

Nagler received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Toronto. He served two years as a visiting scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, and joined the physics faculty at the University of Florida in 1984.

Career

In 1984, at the University of Florida, Nagler initiated a research program using both time-resolved X-ray scattering and neutron scattering, and he was a founding member of the MRCAT beamline at the Advanced Photon Source, located in Argonne, Illinois.  Nagler joined the former Solid State Physics Division’s Neutron scattering Group in 1995 and served as group leader for Neutron spectrometry from 1996 to 2005.

At Oak Ridge his primary research interests have been quantum magnetism and correlated electron systems. Nagler served as the interim director of the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) for Neutron scattering in 2005–2006, guiding the center through a critical DOE review while ensuring research productivity, successful instrument upgrades, and integration of neutron scattering at the HFIR and at the Spallation Neutron Source.

Awards and honors

 Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation (1986).
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientist of the Year
 Fellow of the American Physical Society (2000)
 Corporate Research Fellow of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for contributions to the study of non-equilibrium thermodynamics systems, quantum magnetism, and excitations in condensed matter (2007)
 UT-Battelle Team Award for Outstanding Scientific Research, 2009.

Nagler serves on numerous national and international committees and was a member of the editorial board of Physical Review Letters.

References

External links
 Publications at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 Publications at ResearchGate

Canadian physicists
Jewish physicists
Oak Ridge National Laboratory people
Fellows of the American Physical Society
University of Tennessee faculty
University of Toronto alumni
People from Calgary
1956 births
Living people
Yttralox. Yttralox is a transparent ceramic consisting of yttria (Y2O3) containing approximately 10% thorium dioxide (ThO2).  It was one of the first transparent ceramics produced, and was invented in 1966 by Richard C. Anderson at the General Electric Research Laboratory while sintering mixtures of rare earth minerals.

Properties 

Yttralox is a solid solution of thorium dioxide in yttria.  The thorium dioxide additive affects the growth of grains during densification, leading to improved optical transparency.  Uncontrolled grain growth allows a few grains to grow larger than the others, trapping pores inside them.  The additive increases the grain boundary hardness more than the internal grain hardness.  This causes porosity to remain on grain boundaries rather than becoming trapped inside grains, allowing them to be eliminated later in the sintering process.  This greatly improves the material's optical transparency, because porosity causes light scattering.  Porosities as low as one part per million were reported.  The resulting grain size was in the range 10–50 μm.

Yttralox was marketed as being "transparent as glass", has a melting point twice as high, and transmits frequencies in the near infrared band as well as visible light.  However, it has little plasticity at high temperatures and low thermal conductivity, giving it a thermal shock performance little better than common glass.

Uses 
Commercialization was limited because Yttralox required high sintering temperatures of 2000–2200°C.  Yttralox was proposed for use in lamp envelopes and high-temperature windows and lenses.  It was investigated for use as a low-loss window material for lasers, for example in conjunction with a laser Doppler velocimeter for ramjet research.  It was also investigated for use with infrared equipment in missiles.  Neodymium oxide–doped Yttralox was used as a proof of concept for laser gain in a polycrystalline oxide ceramic, but was not commercialized due to low efficiency.

Yttralox's competing materials were an yttria containing lanthanum oxide manufactured by GTE, and a pure yttria material manufactured by Raytheon.

History 

Yttralox was invented in 1966 by Richard C. Anderson at the General Electric Research Laboratory while sintering mixtures of rare earth minerals.  The initial objective of the research was to develop ionic conductors for fuel cells using yttria–zirconium dioxide materials.  Although the zirconium dioxide-rich versions were of more interest for ionic conductors, the yttria-rich versions unexpectedly produced transparent samples.  Further research established that other oxides of Group 4 elements, thorium dioxide and hafnium dioxide, were also effective at producing transparent yttria, and the thorium dioxide system became the most extensively studied.  Further work at GE was performed by Paul J. Jorgensen, Joseph H. Rosolowski, and Douglas St. Pierre.  Fabrication of Yttralox was reported by Greskovich and Woods.  

As of 1982, Yttralox was no longer being produced.

References

External links 
 

Ceramic materials
Transparent materials
Yttrium compounds
Prima-class cruise ship. Prima-class cruise ships, formerly known by the project name Project Leonardo, are a class of cruise ships built for Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). These are the first NCL ships to be built by Fincantieri. Each ship is expected to cost about $850 million. The modifications that are to be made to the design for the future Prima-class ships would result in an extra 1.2 billion euros in shipbuilding costs — about $1.27 billion.

The first ship, , entered service in 2022, with the second, , in 2023.

The third and fourth Prima-class ships will debut in 2025 and 2026 and will be around 10 percent bigger in gross tonnage than the Norwegian Prima, the first in the NCL's new class of ships. The fifth and sixth Prima-class ships will be 20 percent larger, making them the largest in the entire fleet, and they will debut in 2027 and 2028. The ships will be wider and longer than Norwegian Prima and Norwegian Viva.

History 
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) ordered four ships in February 2017, with an option for two more ships, under the project name "Project Leonardo".
The ships should be delivered in the years 2022 to 2026, the optional ships up to 2028.

In July 2018, the cruise line confirmed its order for the fifth and sixth cruise ships under Project Leonardo. They are expected to join the NCL's fleet in 2026 and 2027 respectively.

Design
The ships will measure  and accommodate approximately 3,300 guests.

In 2022, Norwegian Cruise Line announced that the third to sixth vessels would have a higher passenger capacity of 3,550 guests.

Ships

References

Prima
Ships of Norwegian Cruise Line
Fincantieri
Locomotives of the Hull and Barnsley Railway. Locomotives of the Hull and Barnsley Railway.  The Hull and Barnsley Railway never manufactured any of its own locomotives, all being built elsewhere. The first types in use were of the design W. Kirtley (Locomotive Superintendent of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway) who was acting as a consultant. Matthew Stirling (son of Patrick Stirling of 'Stirling Single' fame) was the first and only Locomotive Superintendent of the H&BR during its independence, and he undertook the rebuilding of some of Mr. Kirtley's designs, as well as contracting the construction of his own designs to various builders. His locomotives were typically domeless, and many of the original Kirtley engines were also rebuilt without domes.

Kirtley's locomotives were painted black with grey lining. Matthew Stirling subtly modified the livery – using invisible green (black except in bright sunlight) produced from a 50:50 mixture of 'drop black' and 'brunswick green'. Lining was of broad stripes of blue (ultramarine) with red (vermilion) edges. The 2-4-0 and 0-6-0 tender locomotives procured by Kitley carried a small cursive monogram of the letters "HB&WRJR", other locomotives carried the initials "H&BR".

A total of 186 engines were operated by the Hull and Barnsley Railway. On merging into the North Eastern Railway, the locomotives were briefly renumbered by adding 3000 to the original number. Following the incorporation into the London and North Eastern Railway, the surviving locomotives were assigned numbers between 2405 and 2542, in no specific order. Most except the H&BR Class F3 (LNER Class N13) were withdrawn between 1930 and 1940, the B Class beginning withdrawal earlier in 1925. The last F3 was withdrawn in 1956.

See also
 Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway
 Locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway

References

Sources
 , social history, posters, postcards, publications and other emphera associated with the H&BR, also King George Dock
, reprint, early history of the line, concise full description, references to early literature and periodical sources
, non technical description of all types with basic side plan drawings with dimensions, notes on livery and external appearance, numbering details and withdrawal dates

Scrapped locomotives
Yayo Herrero. Yayo Herrero López (born 1965 in Madrid) is a Spanish anthropologist, engineer, professor and ecofeminist activist. She is one of the most influential researchers in ecofeminism and ecosocialism at European level.

Biography 
Yayo Herrero graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Agricultural Engineering, Social Education and MAS in Education Sciences.

She has been state coordinator of Ecologists in Action and has participated in numerous social initiatives about promotion of Human rights and social ecology. Currently she is a professor at the National University of Distance Education and general director of FUHEM. She collaborates regularly with various media, such as eldiario.es.

In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Russian Feminist Anti-War Resistance.

Work 
Herrero's research focuses in the current ecological crisis derived from the capitalist development and production model. In this sense, she argues that capitalism itself cannot exist without economic growth, but in a physical world that has limits, an indefinite growth is impossible. Furthermore, she also argues that in this economic model superfluous jobs are prevailed, while the work that makes possible the maintenance of human life, such as agricultural production or reproductive labor, are completely precarious or directly excluded from any remuneration.

In this way, she proposes a transition towards a different economic model, that takes into account the social inclusion of all people and that is compatible with the regeneration capacity of nature.

Featured publications 
 "La gran encrucijada. Sobre la crisis ecosocial y el cambio de ciclo histórico". Libros en Acción, 2016.
 "Ecologismo: una cuestión de límites". Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, 2016.
 "Apuntes introductorios sobre el Ecofeminismo". Boletín del Centro de Documentación Hegoa, 2015.
 "Por una recuperación de la condición humana en un planeta con límites". Documentación social, 2013.
 "Miradas ecofeministas para transitar a un mundo justo y sostenible". Revista de economía crítica, 2013.
 "Golpe de estado en la biosfera: los ecosistemas al servicio del capital". Investigaciones feministas: papeles de estudios de mujeres, feministas y de género, 2011.
 "¿Dominio o cuidado de la tierra?" Éxodo, 2011.
 "Menos para vivir mejor: reflexiones sobre el necesario decrecimiento de la presión sobre los sistemas naturales". El Ecologista, 2010.
 "Decrecimiento y mujeres. Cuidar: Una práctica política anticapitalista y antipatriarcal". Decrecimientos, 2010.

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References 

Ecofeminists
Spanish anthropologists
Spanish women engineers
Spanish feminists
Spanish women anthropologists
People from Madrid
1965 births
Living people
21st-century women engineers
Academic staff of the National University of Distance Education
Lewis Warrington Chubb. Lewis Warrington Chubb (October 22, 1882 – April 2, 1952) was an American electrical engineer, director of Westinghouse Research Laboratory, pioneer in radio broadcasting, and inventor, who was awarded the John Fritz Medal in 1947.

Biography 
Chubb was born in Fort Yates, Dakota Territory in 1882, the son of army officer Charles St. John Chubb and Sarah L. (Eaton) Chubb. He was raised in multiple army posts of the West, where "Indian uprisings were still flickering along the vanishing frontier."

In 1905 Chubb obtained his MSc from Ohio State University, and started his lifelong career at Westinghouse Electric Corporation as apprentice in research, development and testing. By 1920 he directed the radio engineering department, and from 1930 until his retirement in 1948 he was research director of the Director of Research.

Chubb was granted 150 patents. He was awarded the honorary doctor of science by the Allegheny College, and by the University of Pittsburgh. The Ohio State University awarded him the Benjamin G. Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal, and in 1947 he was awarded the John Fritz Medal.

Selected publications 
 Lewis Warrington Chubb. The world within the atom : how scientists explored the atom and learned to release its energy, 1950.

Patents, a selection
 Warrington, Chubb Lewis. "Electrical precipitating system." U.S. Patent No. 1,399,422. 6 Dec. 1921.
 Lewis, Warrington Chubb. "Electropercussive welding." U.S. Patent No. 1,373,054. 29 Mar. 1921.
 Warrington, Chubb Lewis. "Emergency source of voltage." U.S. Patent No. 1,401,671. 27 Dec. 1921.
 Lewis, Warrington Chubb. "Means for producing high voltage." U.S. Patent No. 1,508,162. 9 Sep. 1924.
 Warrington, Chubb Lewis. "Light telephony." U.S. Patent No. 1,642,011. 13 Sep. 1927.
 Warrington, Chubb Lewis. "Vehicle lighting system." U.S. Patent No. 2,087,795. 20 Jul. 1937.

References

External links 
 Lewis Warrington Chubb (1883-1952), Smithsonian Institution Archives (with picture)

1882 births
1952 deaths
20th-century American engineers
People from North Dakota
John Fritz Medal recipients
OOCL Germany. OOCL Germany is the second G-class built at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje. She was completed and christened in August 2017 and entered service for OOCL's Asia-Europe trade lane.

Construction
OOCL Germany has a length of , beam of , depth of  and draft of . The dead weight of the ship is , the gross tonnage is  and the net tonnage is . She has a capacity of .

Engineering
The main engine of the OOCL Germany is a Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C, which has an output power of 80,080 kW. The ship operates at a service speed of 22.5 kts, while the maximum speed exceeds 24.0 kts.

References

External links
 OOCL Germany

Merchant ships of Hong Kong
Container ships
Ships of the Orient Overseas Container Line
2017 ships