omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Rideau Valley Conservation Authority. The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) is an inter-municipal environmental protection and advisory agency that works with local municipalities, government agencies, special interest groups and the general public to protect the natural resources of the Rideau River watershed. The watershed drains an area of over  of eastern Ontario and includes towns such as Portland, Perth, Smith Falls, Merrickville, Kemptville, and Manotick. About 620,000 live in the watershed, mostly deriving from the City of Ottawa. There are 18 municipalities within the valley and most people, outside of Ottawa, draw their drinking water from the river or from groundwater.

The mission of the RVCA is to have clean drinking water, natural shorelines, and sustainable land use throughout the Rideau Valley watershed.

Rideau Valley Conservation Foundation 

The RVCA provides office space, staff, and expertise to the Rideau Valley Conservation Foundation (RVCF)  and their environmental projects, while managing all of its conservation lands. The RVCF was founded in 1970. It has an active land securement plan and strong track record in managing donated land through agreement with the RVCA. It accepts gifts of land in exchange for a charitable tax receipt for the fair market value of the property in common with groups like the Rideau Waterway Land Trust Foundation, local municipalities and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

Conservation areas 
 Baxter
 Chapman Mills
 Foley Mountain
 Meisel Woods
 Mill Pond
 Motts Mills
 Perth Wildlife Reserve
 Portland Bay
 Richmond
 Rideau Ferry Yacht Club
 W.A. Taylor

References

External links 
 Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
 Rideau Valley Conservation Foundation
 Rideau Waterway Land Trust Foundation

Conservation authorities in Ontario

Water organizations
Shavit 2 (sounding rocket). Shavit 2 (Hebrew: "comet" - 2 שביט) was the first Israeli sounding rocket, launched on 5 July 1961 for meteorological research.

The weight of Shavit 2 was 250 kg and its height was 3.76 metres. The rocket achieved a height of 80 km.

The Shavit sounding rocket is distinct from the later Shavit 2 space launch vehicle also produced by Israel to launch Ofeq reconnaissance satellites into low Earth orbit beginning in September 1988.

References 

 RAFAEL Armament Development Authority... by Munia Merdor, Ministry of Defense publishing, 1980, pp. 319–348.
 Above the Horizon, 50 years of Israel's Space Activity, by Dani Shalom, BaAvir flight publishing, 2003, pp. 12–15.

Sounding rockets of Israel
WorldView-2. WorldView-2 (WV 2) is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by DigitalGlobe. WorldView-2 provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of  resolution, and eight-band multispectral imagery with  resolution.

It was launched 8 October 2009 to become DigitalGlobe's third satellite in orbit, joining WorldView-1 which was launched in 2007 and QuickBird which was launched in 2001. It takes a new photograph of any place on Earth every 1.1 days.

Design
Ball Aerospace built the spacecraft, which includes an optical telescope that can image objects  in diameter.

Launch
WorldView-2 was launched 8 October 2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a Delta II flying in the 7920 configuration. The launch vehicle was provided by the United Launch Alliance and launch services were administered by Boeing.

History
On 19 July 2016, the Joint Space Operations Center reported a debris causing event of at least 9 observable pieces, after which DigitalGlobe demonstrated the satellite to still be functional by releasing an image of downtown Oakland, California.

See also

 2009 in spaceflight

References

External links
 WorldView-2 at Digitalglobe.com
 WorldView-2 sensor information at Satimagingcorp.com

Commercial imaging satellites of the United States
Spacecraft launched in 2009
Spacecraft launched by Delta II rockets
Moshe Ron. Moshe Ron (1925 in Warsaw, Poland – 2001 in Haifa, Israel) was an Israeli materials scientist which specialized in metal hydrides.

Biography 
Moshe Ron (Zilberman) was born in Poland. His family escaped to USSR before World War II. He started his academic education in soviet Central Asia during the war. After the war he tried to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine, but spent two years at Cyprus.
He got his degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
He did research on the Mössbauer effect in metals.
Moshe Ron was the organizer and scientific supervisor of the Laboratory of Hydrogen Energy at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He contributed to the development of heat pumps based on use of metal hydrides. His research was supported by Daimler-Benz AG and Stuttgart University.

Main publications 
    M. Ron.    J. Less-Common Metals 104, (1984) 259.
    M. Ron et al.  Israeli Patenr # 55403 (1982);  USA Patent # .4,436,539 (1982).
    M. Ron  and Y. Josephy. Z. Phys. Chem. N. F. 147, (1966), 241.
    M. Ron  and Y. Josephy. Z. Phys. Chem. N. F. 164, (1989), 1478.
    M. Ron  and Y. Josephy.Proceed. "International Workshop on Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage Purification and Thermodyn. Devices". 1988, Stuttgart, Germany.
    M. Ron. " A Vehicle Driven by Hydrogen within a City and Air Conditioned". Study, submitted to Daimler - Benz, 1993.
    E. Bershadski, A. Klyuch and M. Ron. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 20 (1995) p. 29.
    M.  Ron,  E. Bershadsky and Y. Josephy. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 17, (1992) 623.
    M. Ron.   US Patent # 4,507,263  1985; US Patent # 4,607,826  1986.
    Y. Yosephy, Y. Eisenberg, S. Peretz,  A. Ben-David and M.Ron. J. Less-Common Metals 104, (1984) 297.
    E. Bershadsky,  Y. Josephy and M. Ron.  J. Less-Common Metals 153, (1989) 65.

References

1925 births
2001 deaths
20th-century Polish Jews
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Israeli materials scientists
Polish emigrants to the Soviet Union
Soviet emigrants to Israel
Jewish scientists
Scientists from Warsaw
Norwegian Museum of Hydropower and Industry. The Norwegian Museum of Hydropower and Industry () is a cultural history museum at  Odda 
in Vestland county, Norway. The museum is located in the village of Tyssedal. The museum is dedicated to the industrial history of Odda and Tyssedal, and more generally to history related to rivers and water, hydropower production, electricity, power intensive industry and its society.

A main attraction is the power station Tysso I, which was designed by architect  Thorvald Astrup (1876–1940) and constructed between 1906 and 1918. The station contains machinery and control room equipment from the entire period of operation, 1908–1989. In 2000 Tyssedal power plant – including Tysso I, pipelines, distribution pool and watchman's house at Lilletopp, and intake pool and valve house at Vetlevann – was protected for posterity by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. During the following years the power plant went through extensive restoration.

Close to the power station is the former administration building for AS Tyssefaldene, the power generation company that owns and operates the hydropower plant. Today the building houses the museum's exhibitions, library, archives, photo and audio collections, as well as an auditorium. Further upstream it is possible to visit the installations at Lilletopp, Vetlevann and the Ringedals Dam. Three old workmen's houses in Odda and a small former hydrologic research station at the glacier Folgefonna are also part of the museum. A via ferrata has been built that allows safe climbing along the very steep pipeline.

References

External links
 Norsk Vasskraft- og Industristadmuseum website
AS Tyssefaldene website 

Archives in Norway
Local museums in Norway
Museums in Vestland
History museums in Norway
Open-air museums in Norway
Industry museums in Norway
H
Museums established in 1989
Rutherford cable. A Rutherford cable is a way of forming a superconducting electrical cable, often used to generate magnetic fields in particle accelerators. The superconducting strands are arranged as a many-stranded helix that has been flattened into a rectangular cable. It can typically only be applied to flexible superconductors that can be drawn into wire such as the niobium-based superconductors used in the Large Hadron Collider. The cable is named after the Rutherford Laboratory where the cable design was developed.

References

External links
 

Cables
Service delivery framework. A service delivery framework (SDF) is a set of principles, standards, policies and constraints to be used to guide the designs, development, deployment, operation and retirement of services delivered by a service provider with a view to offering a consistent service experience to a specific user community in a specific business context.  An SDF is the context in which a service provider's capabilities are arranged into services.

The term service delivery framework (SDF) has been used interchangeably with the term service delivery platform (SDP), which is a set of technology components that provide capabilities. A service delivery framework governs and guides the use of service delivery platform capabilities.

Current use
Service delivery frameworks fall into two categories.

 A general reference model for the delivery of services. Such a service delivery framework is developed to be broadly applicable to a particular industry. The TM Forum Service Delivery Framework , as an example, is developed for the telecommunications industry.
 A more refined reference model for service delivery. This kind of SDF, being more specific, applies to a particular market or service provider. The Immunisation Service Delivery Framework  of the District Health Boards of New Zealand  offers an example.

Some vendors of service delivery platforms use the term "service delivery framework" to describe their product offerings.

In context

Accountability for service delivery 
The relationship between government and citizens is crucial. Ultimately, government is accountable to citizens for decisions taken. Many countries need to improve the substantive elements of democracy and its checks and balances to ensure that public goods are delivered according to citizens’ expectations. Some methodologies for assessing the extent to which service delivery is accountable have been developed. For instance, the methodology for citizen-led assessment  of accountability in service delivery has been developed by the International IDEA.

See also
 Service delivery platform
 Servicescape

External links
 Democratic Accountability in Service Delivery: a review of the literature, a self-assessment methodology, and a sample of cases from around the world. The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
 TMForum Service Delivery Framework
 DHBNZ Immunisation Service Delivery Framework

References 

Services marketing
Institut de recherche de la sidérurgie. The Institut de recherche de la sidérurgie (IRSID) is the old name of ArcelorMittal Maizières Research SA, a private research center related to the siderurgical society ArcelorMittal (originally (Usinor, then Arcelor)), founded in 1946 and situated at Maizières-lès-Metz, in  Lorraine. Two of the Institute's three centres were closed in 1993. It employs around 500 people, including more than 200 researchers.

This research site is specialized in the following domains:
 Steel for automobile
 Steel for packaging
 Steel manufacturing procedures

References

Science and technology in France
Sikorsky S-36. The Sikorsky S-36 was an eight-seat amphibian sesquiplane designed and built by the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company in the late 1920s. The aircraft was ordered by Pan American Airways, the start of a long association with Sikorsky flying boats.

Development
The S-36 was a modified and larger version of the earlier S-34 and was designed as a commercial aircraft for six passengers or freight. It was an amphibian sesquiplane with a boat hull fuselage and retractable landing gear. It was powered by two Wright Whirlwind J-5 engines and had a crew of two and room for six passengers on two facing bench seats. Only six aircraft were built.

Operational history
One aircraft named Dawn was sold to Mrs. Frances Grayson, a wealthy divorcee, for an attempt to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. As a passenger in Dawn and after two false starts, Grayson, with Brice Herbert Goldsborough (navigator), Oskar Omdal (pilot) and Fred Koehler (passenger) departed in the aircraft for the Atlantic attempt on 23 December 1927 but was not seen again. The weather was poor. The aircraft passed Cape Cod at 8 am, headed for Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. The last message from the aircraft before it disappeared was received by a radio station on Sable Island off the coast of Canada, consisting of the words "something's wrong here" with the aircraft's callsign. This resulted in the first-ever air relief expedition, including two destroyers and the dirigible USS Los Angeles. A message in a bottle was found on January 29, 1929; it read "1928, we are freezing. Gas leaked out. We are drifting off Grand Banks. Grayson." The aircraft and its occupants were never found.

The United States Navy bought one aircraft, designated the XPS-1, fitted with a gunner's position in the bow for evaluation as a patrol aircraft, although it was used as a transport.

The fourth aircraft was delivered to Pan American Airways in December 1927.

Variants

S-36
Production aircraft, five built.
S-36B
Evaluation aircraft with Wright J-5 engines for the United States Navy as the XPS-1, one built.
XPS-1
One S-36B for evaluation by the United States Navy

Operators

Pan American Airways
United States Navy

Specifications (S-36 production version)

See also

References
Notes

Bibliography

 A contemporary technical article on the S-36.

External links

S-036
1920s United States airliners
Flying boats
Sesquiplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1927
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Archibald Russell (disambiguation). Archibald Russell was an aeronautical engineer who served as chief designer for the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

Archibald Russell may also refer to:

 Archibald George Blomefield Russell (1879–1955), British historian and King of Arms
 Archibald D. Russell (1853–1919), American financier and philanthropist
 Archibald Russell (ship), a 1905 tall ship built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Russell, Archibald
John Burnham (submarine designer). John M. Burnham (September 11, 1917 – November 15, 1957) was the designer of , the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine.

He was a 1941 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. In 1947, he joined the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation at Groton, Connecticut. He became design manager at Electric Boat in 1952 and was responsible for the design of Nautilus and two other nuclear-powered submarines,  and .

References

1917 births
1957 deaths
American industrial designers
20th-century American engineers
United States Naval Academy alumni
Russell C. Eberhart. Russell C. Eberhart, an American electrical engineer, best known as the co-developer of particle swarm optimization concept (with James Kennedy (social psychologist)). He is professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 1972. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and past President of IEEE Neural Networks Council.

Publications
 Neural Network PC Tools, published by Academic Press in 1990. Co-editor.
 Computational Intelligence PC Tools, published by Academic Press Professional, 1996. Co-author.
 Swarm Intelligence, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2001. Co-author.
 Computational Intelligence: Concepts to Implementations, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2007. Co-author.

References

Living people
Kansas State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
American electrical engineers
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
FH-88. The FH-88 or Field Howitzer 88 was the first locally designed howitzer developed for the Singapore Army. It is a 155 mm/39-calibre towed howitzer gun.

Development
Ordnance Development and Engineering of Singapore (ODE, now Singapore Technologies Kinetics) began development of the FH-88 in 1983 with five prototypes being produced over a period of four years. These were followed by a preproduction batch of six 155 mm FH-88 gun-howitzers that incorporated a number of improvements as a result of trials with the prototype weapons.

First production FH-88s were completed in 1987, with the weapon becoming operational with the Singapore Army the following year, replacing the Soltam M-71. The howitzer was publicly presented in 1988.

Operators

: Known to use 52 FH-88s.
: Known to have 5 FH-88s delivered in 1997.

See also
FH-2000
SLWH Pegasus
SSPH Primus

References

Bibliography
Hogg, Ian. Twentieth-Century Artillery. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000.  Pg.70

External links
Singapore Army official site

155 mm artillery
Artillery of Singapore
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal. The IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal is a science award presented by the IEEE for outstanding contributions to the microelectronics industry. It is given to individuals who have demonstrated contributions in multiple areas including technology development, business development, industry leadership, development of technology policy, and standards development. The medal is named in honour of Robert N. Noyce, the co-founder of Intel Corporation. He was also renowned for his 1959 invention of the integrated circuit. The medal is funded by Intel Corporation and was first awarded in 2000.

Recipients 

Source:

References

External links 
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Recipients of the Robert N. Noyce Medal,  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Awards established in 2000
IEEE medals
Beardmore W.B.II. The Beardmore W.B.II was a British biplane fighter prototype of the 1910s.

Development
A two-seat fighter of wooden construction, the W.B.II was built as a private venture by William Beardmore and Company. A development of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c it was designed by G. Tilghman Richards in 1916. Powered by a  Hispano-Suiza 8Bd engine, it carried two guns and design finished early in 1917 with the production of the first prototype.

Operational history
The W.B.II was first flown on 30 August 1917, and performance proved good. However, the Air Ministry deemed that the 8Bd engine, at that time in short supply, was needed more urgently for use in the S.E.5a fighter at that time serving with the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. As such, no further production of the W.B.II took place, however in 1920 two civil examples were produced, named the W.B.IIB.

Variants
W.B.II 2-seat fighter built as a private venture;two built.
W.B.IIa Adriatic A proposed version to have been powered by the Galloway Adriatic engine.
W.B.IIb A fast mail-plane civilian variant; two built.

Specifications (W.B.II)

References

Bibliography

1910s British fighter aircraft
W.B.2
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Ragnar Sohlman. Ragnar Sohlman (February 26, 1870 – July 9, 1948) was a Swedish chemical engineer, manager, civil servant, and creator of the Nobel Foundation.

Biography 
Ragnar Sohlman was born in Stockholm to August Sohlman, a well-known newspaper man, and his wife Hulda Maria Sandeberg. In 1887, he enrolled at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and graduated as a chemical engineer in 1890.

In 1893 Sohlman became the assistant of Alfred Nobel in San Remo, and Nobel's will from 1895 named him and Rudolf Lilljequist as executors, with Sohlman expected to do most of the work. The will stated:

The sum of 100,000 crowns was a very significant amount at the time, and made Sohlman a wealthy man. The amount can be compared to the prize amount of the first Nobel Prizes in 1901, 150,782 crowns each.

After Alfred Nobel's death on December 10, 1896, Sohlman was occupied for several years with the task of realizing Nobel's intentions of establishing the Nobel Prize. Since the will did not contain detailed regulations regarding selection of laureates and was contested by Nobel's relatives, the task kept Sohlman and his advisors occupied for several years. Sohlman was a member of the interim board of the Nobel Foundation.

Sohlman also had a career as engineer and manager in Nobel-related companies, such as Bofors. He was also the director general of the Swedish National Board of Trade 1935–1936.

He was the executive director of the Nobel Foundation 1929–1946.

In 1940, he was awarded the Illis quorum.

Sohlman died at the Karolinska hospital in Solna in 1948.

Solhman's son was a Swedish diplomat and his grandson Michael Sohlman is the present executive director of the Nobel Foundation.

References 

1870 births
1948 deaths
Nobel Prize
20th-century Swedish engineers
Swedish chemical engineers
20th-century Swedish businesspeople
Engineers from Stockholm
Recipients of the Illis quorum
Kværner process. The Kværner process or the Kværner carbon black and hydrogen process (CB&H) is a method of producing carbon black and hydrogen gas from hydrocarbons such as methane, natural gas and biogas with no greenhouse gas pollution. The process was developed in the 1980s by the Norwegian engineering firm Kværner, and was first commercially exploited in 1999. Further refinement enabled the methane pyrolysis process for implementation at high-volume and low-cost.

Description 

The endothermic reaction separates (i.e. decomposes) hydrocarbons into carbon and hydrogen in a plasma burner at around 1600 °C. The resulting components, carbon particles and hydrogen, are present as a mixture in form of an aerosol.  

C_\mathit{n}H_\mathit{m} -> {\mathit{n}C} + \frac{\mathit{m}}{2} H2 

In comparison to other reformation methods such as steam reforming and partial oxidation that have carbon dioxide as a by-product, there is no by-product in the Kværner process. The natural gas is efficiently and completely transformed into pure carbon and hydrogen and does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. After separating the mixture, the carbon particles can be used for instance as activated carbon, graphite or industrial soot, special kinds of carbon such as carbon discs and carbon cones (see SEM image). The carbon is obtained as black powdery solid matter and forms a technical product which may be used e.g. as filler in the rubber industry, as pigment soot for inks and paints or as raw material for electrical components. The hydrogen may be discharged for the chemical industry or may be used for generating electricity.

Of the available energy of the feed, approximately 48% is contained in the hydrogen, 40% is contained in activated carbon and 10% in superheated steam.

Plasma variation
A variation of this process using plasma arc waste disposal was presented in 2009. Methane and natural gas is converted to hydrogen, heat and carbon using a plasma converter.

See also
 Hydrogen production
 Methane pyrolysis
 Renewable energy
 Electric arc

References 

Chemical processes
Hydrogen production
Kværner
Industrial gases