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American National Carbide. American National Carbide was a privately held company that manufactured tungsten carbide products and was headquartered in Tomball, Texas, which is just northwest of Houston.  Also known as "ANC," the company specialized in the production of finished carbide tools for metalworking, rock drilling, and wear applications and was one of a few companies worldwide that was able to recycle tungsten carbide scrap into raw material.  ANC, a member of the United States Cutting Tool Institute, was founded in 1970 and sold its products worldwide.

In June 2012, American National Carbide announced a $2.5 million expansion of its raw material production operation.

In January 2023, ANC was forced to cease operations permanently.  In August 2023, the company's principal owner, Greg Stroud, announced the launch of a newly formed entity, a manufacturer/distributor called AmeriServ Supply, which was established to service customers of American National Carbide by providing tungsten carbide cutting and wear products formerly produced by ANC.

Production
American National Carbide products:
 ISO- and ANSI-standard indexable metalworking inserts for turning, milling, threading, grooving, drilling and parting applications
 ISO- and ANSI-standard shims and chipbreakers for metalworking operations
 Unfinished blanks for metalworking inserts and brazed tools
 Inserts for rock drilling and mining, including compacts, nozzles, stabilizers, and hardfacing material
 Cutting and wear products for the primary and secondary wood processing industries
 Specialized cutting tools for brake drum turning, railwheel truing, bar peeling, and small hole boring
 Blended tungsten carbide-cobalt powders for cemented carbide manufacturers and the plasma spray industry

References

External links
 Company website

Manufacturing companies established in 1970
Tool manufacturing companies of the United States
1970 establishments in Texas
Creo Elements/View. Creo Elements/View, formerly known as ProductView, is a suite of digital mockup and product visualization software applications from PTC.

History 
ProductView, now Creo Elements/View, was originally developed by Object Logic, a small company in San Diego.   In September 1998, Division Group, another  vendor of visualization tools based in Bristol UK,  announced the planned acquisition of ObjectLogic.  However, before this acquisition could be completed, PTC acquired Division Group in January 1999 for approximately $48 million in stock and cash.  PTC then completed the acquisition of Object Logic in March, 1999.

PTC then marketed products from both companies using the names ProductView and DIVISION.

In 2008, PTC changed its definition of ProductView to define the suite of products acquired from Object Logic and Division Group as well as products acquired in the purchase of OHIO Design Automation.

As of 2008, the latest release is version 9.1.

On October 28, 2010, PTC announced that ProductView is now Creo Elements/View. The name change applies to release 9.1.

ProductView components

Mechanical CAD (MCAD) Visualization 
Creo Elements/View MCAD Professional (formally called ProductView Standard) – This is PTC’s primary product visualization tool

Creo Elements/View Lite – A subset of ProductView MCAD professional capabilities that is included with Windchill

ProductView Composer 9.0 – Creates interactive assembly and dis-assembly sequences

Creo Elements/View PDF Collaboration – Manages document collaboration including annotation, viewing and watermarking.

ProductView Realizer 9.0 – Creates interactive animations of mechanisms

Creo Elements/View Toolkits – Used to create custom applications based on the ProductView technology

Creo Elements/View Express – Free, downloadable tool for simple viewing of Creo Elements/Pro (formerly Pro/ENGINEER) parts, assemblies and drawings

DIVISION MockUp – PTC’s primary digital mockup tool

DIVISION Reality – This tool builds upon DIVISION Mockup to create a higher-end virtual 
environment that is used to analyze product models

Electrical CAD (ECAD) Visualization 

Creo Elements/View ECAD Compare (formerly called InterComm EDAcompare) – Compare two versions of printed circuit board (PCB) designs

Creo Elements/View Validate (formerly called validation manager, a part of InterComm EDAcompare)– Steps through changes made between ECAD designs or across ECAD and MCAD design

InterComm EDAconduit – Automates electronic markup exchange between ECAD authors and non-authors

InterComm Expert– Verifies electronic design intent with multiple departments

See also
 Parametric Technology Corporation
 Creo
 Creo Elements/Pro
 Pro/DESKTOP

References

External links 
 PTC

3D graphics software
Product lifecycle management
1997 software
Japan Institute for Promotion of Digital Economy and Community. Japan Institute for Promotion of Digital Economy and Community (JIPDEC or 一般財団法人日本情報経済社会推進協会 in Japanese) is a nonprofit foundation for development of key IT technologies and policies, as related to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The promotion of information processing by computers is JIPDEC's objective.

General information 
The JIPDEC was established on 20 December 1967 as ″Japan Information Processing Development Corporation″. The Japan Computer Usage Development Institute (CUDI) and the Institute of Information Technology (IIT) were incorporated into JIPDEC in April 1976. In April 2011 the JIPDEC became a general incorporated foundation governed by the ″Act on Authorization of Public Interest Incorporated Associations and Public Interest Incorporated Foundations″. The organization was renamed to ″Japan Institute for Promotion of Digital Economy and Community (JIPDEC)″.

The JIPDEC is known for their contributions to security and privacy issues. The JIPDEC is part of the accreditation process for the certification of several management systems. Based on the ″Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI)″ of 2005 the PrivacyMark System helps private enterprises to fulfill the compliance with Japanese Industrial Standards JIS Q 15001:2006 Personal Information Protection Management System - Requirements on Personal Information Protection Management Systems (PMS). Other management systems like ISO/IEC 27001-based JIS Q 27001 Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), ISO/IEC 20000-based Information Technology Service Management Systems (ITSMS) and Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) can show compliance with further legislative acts. Furthermore, the JIPDEC has developed and is ″developing new mechanisms for the use of electronic information″.

See also 

For the IT related organizations and consortiums in Japan, see:
 Japan Information Industry Association (JISA) 
 Computer Entertainment Suppliers' Association (CESA)
 Japan Users Association of Information Systems
 Japan Telemarketing Association (JTA)
 Japan Data Center Council
 JEIDA (Japan Electronic Industries Development Association)

References

External links 
 JIPDEC homepage
 PrivacyMark System homepage

Economy of Japan
Non-profit organizations based in Japan
Information technology organizations based in Asia
Johann Brotan. Johann Brotan (24 June 1843 – 20 November 1918) was an Austrian mechanical engineer, specialising in locomotive construction.

Biography
Johann Brotan was born in Klattau, now Klatovy in the Czech Republic. He studied at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute (k. k. Polytechnisches Institut) in Vienna, Austria.

He worked for the state telegraph construction department, for Theis Railway Company, the Hungarian Eastern Railway and the Lemberg-Czernowitz-Jassy Railway before joining the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (kaiserlich-königliche österreichische Staatsbahnen or k.k.St.B.) in 1890.

In 1902 he became the executive of the k.k.St.B. workshop at Gmünd, later the repair shop at Vienna's Westbahnhof. He retired in 1912 and, according to one source, died in Vienna on 20 November 1918. According to other sources, he is believed to have died in 1923, but trace of him was lost in the disorganisation following the First World War.

He is known for his invention of the most successful semi water-tube locomotive boiler, known as the Brotan boiler, first fitted in 1902.

See also
 List of railway pioneers

References

Sources
 
 

1843 births
1918 deaths
Engineers from Austria-Hungary
People from Klatovy
Austrian railway pioneers
Austrian railway mechanical engineers
Austrian people of German Bohemian descent
Emlyn Rhoderick. Emlyn Huw Rhoderick (29 September 1920 – 24 March 2007) was a Welsh physicist and academic, who spent 33 years as professor of solid-state electronics at the Manchester College of Science and Technology (later known as UMIST).

Life
Rhoderick was born in Pontypridd, south Wales on 29 September 1920.  He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining first-class honours in natural science (physics), having studied mathematics in his first year at the university on the advice of his tutor. Before studying nuclear physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, he worked on coastal defence radar at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment during the Second World War.  He then taught at Glasgow University and, after winning a Fulbright Fellowship, at Columbia University.  In 1954, he was appointed as principal scientific officer at the Services Electronic Research Laboratory at Baldock, Hertfordshire, working on semiconductors and superconductors.  He was promoted to senior principal scientific officer.

Rhoderick's work attracted the attention of Lord Bowden, the principal of the Manchester College of Science and Technology, who asked Rhoderick to become the first-ever professor of solid-state electronics.  He was appointed in 1962 and spent the following 33 years in Manchester, building an internationally recognised research group and conducting significant research himself; his published work on semiconductors became a standard reference on the topic.  He took on organisational responsibilities at the university, acting as vice-principal to resolve a conflict between the principal and the chairman of council, and becoming temporary head of an arts department that was in severe difficulties.

Rhoderick died on 24 March 2007.

References

1920 births
2007 deaths
Welsh scholars and academics
Welsh physicists
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Columbia University faculty
English Electric Canberra (book). The English Electric Canberra subtitled The History and Development of a Classic Jet () is a book by British military historian and author Bruce Barrymore Halpenny about the English Electric Canberra. Illustrated throughout, the book includes interviews with Wing Commander K H Wallis, the man Halpenny attributes as having "saved the Canberra".

The book looks at the development of the aircraft during the early days of jet power and beyond. Each of the many marks and variants are described. The type's record of service with RAF Squadrons is given together with descriptions of the many experimental models.

In the introduction, the author states, “it was a matter of producing either a technical book, or one that would appeal to a wider readership, setting out the true Canberra story: marks, variants, overseas orders, squadrons, records, experimental Canberras, camouflage, markings, and most importantly, the truth about bombing up the aircraft; also serious problems with which the Canberra was sent out to operational R.A.F. stations." He chose the latter and the finished article is an "outstanding" tribute to a remarkable aeroplane, though those that were deep aviation fans were unhappy that it was not a technical book. A case that the author could not satisfy everyone.

The book took 18 years to complete and the acknowledgments cover two full pages - a testimony to the thoroughness of Halpenny's research. Among the many firms and names mentioned, one in particular comes in for special mention. W/Cdr. K H Wallis, who saved the life of the Canberra by inventing the system of loading bombs for as late at 1951 at R.A.F. Binbrook, not a single aircraft was capable of delivering bombs, simply because the fuselage was too low to the ground!

With Canberra's introduction came the early Rolls-Royce Axial Flow Avon engine, a full description of which, its history and development is given in Chapter 2 - the author even tells us how a jet engine delivers its thrust.

The book displays a collection of photographs - some never seen before, also the history and deployment of no less than 81 Squadrons each of which flies the Canberra in its various marks and roles.

References

History of aviation
Books about the Cold War
2005 non-fiction books
Aviation books
Air force history
Works by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
Jakob Buchli. Jakob Buchli (4 March 1876 – 1 April 1945) was a Swiss design engineer in the field of locomotive construction.

Life 
Jakob Buchli was born in Chur, Switzerland, on 4 March 1876. After his training to be an engineer he worked from 1902 to 1910 for the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik or SLM) in Winterthur; from 1907 as its head of the design office. After that he switched to Brown, Boveri & Cie. in Baden, Switzerland, where he was the chief engineer for electric traction until 1924. From 1924 to 1930 he was technical director of the locomotive construction department of the SLM.

Amongst his most important designs were the Buchli drive (1918) named after him and used on the SBB Class Ae 4/7 amongst others, the Java bogie, the Winterthur universal drive and the duplex bogie for express coaches.

He died in Winterthur on 1 April 1945.

See also
 List of railway pioneers

Sources 
 
 

1876 births
1945 deaths
Swiss railway mechanical engineers
Swiss railway pioneers
People from Chur
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Louis Adolf Gölsdorf. Louis Adolf Gölsdorf (16 February 1837 – 28 November 1911) was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. He was the father of Karl Gölsdorf.

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf was born in Plaue, Austria, on 16 February 1837 and educated in Chemnitz and Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony at various technical schools before taking up technical work for the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company. In 1860 he became a mechanical engineer with the Lokomotivfabrik der StEG in Vienna, but moved in 1861 to the Austrian Southern Railway, the Südbahn, where he soon took on a leading role in the locomotive design office. From 1885 to 1908 he was the chief mechanical engineer (Maschinendirektor) of the Southern Railway (Südbahn).

In addition to his own locomotive designs, he developed the so-called Gepäcklokomotive (luggage locomotive) with Anton Elbel, an economical type of locomotive with its own luggage compartment that was deployed on several Austro-Hungarian railways.

He died on 28 November 1911 in Vienna.

See also 
 List of railway pioneers

Sources 
 :de:Louis Adolf Gölsdorf

1837 births
1911 deaths
Austrian railway pioneers
Austrian railway mechanical engineers
Engineers from Vienna
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
Engineers from the Austrian Empire
Anton Elbel. Anton Elbel (6 January 1834 – 3 October 1912) was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer.

Anton Elbel was born in Vienna on 6 January 1834 and attended the Polytechnic Institute there. In 1856 he started work for the Carinthian Railway (Kärntner Bahn). When this was absorbed by the Austrian Southern Railway, or Südbahn, he transferred with it and worked in the Südbahn design office in Vienna from 1860 to 1867.

Following that he was the inspector of general operations for the construction of the Hungarian Western Railway for several years. From 1872 to 1892 he worked for the Austrian Northwest Railway, finishing as central inspector and president of the design office.

Together with Louis Adolf Gölsdorf he designed the so-called Gepäcklokomotive, an economical form of locomotive with a luggage compartment that saw service on several Austro-Hungarian railways.

He died on 3 October 1912 in Baden, Lower Austria.

See also
 List of railway pioneers

References

1834 births
1912 deaths
Engineers from Austria-Hungary
Austrian railway pioneers
Austrian railway mechanical engineers
Scientists from Vienna
TU Wien alumni
Nano Letters. Nano Letters is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society. It was established in January 2001. The editor-in-chief is Teri W. Odom (Northwestern University). The journal covers all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology and their subdisciplines.

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is currently abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service, Scopus, EBSCOhost, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, Science Citation Index, and Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences.

References

External links 
 

American Chemical Society academic journals
Nanotechnology journals
Academic journals established in 2001
Monthly journals
English-language journals
William J. Kaiser. William Joseph Kaiser (born September 15, 1955) is a professor and former department chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a winner of 2007 Gold Shield Prize and has been a Fellow of American Vacuum Society since 1994. He is the director of Actuated Sensing & Coordinated Embedded Networked Technologies research group at UCLA and co-director of UCLA Wireless Health Institute.

Biography
Kaiser received a PhD in Solid State Physics from Wayne State University in 1984. From 1977 through 1986, as a member of Ford Motor Co. Research Staff, his development of automotive sensor and embedded system technology resulted in large volume commercial sensor production. At Ford, he also developed the first spectroscopies based on scanning tunneling microscopy. From 1986 through 1994, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Kaiser developed and demonstrated the first electron tunnel sensors for acceleration and infrared detection and initiated the NASA/JPL microinstrument program.

In 1994, Kaiser joined the faculty of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. At UCLA, he initiated the distributed networked embedded sensor field via many large collaborative programs across several departments. These combined UCLA research activities have now lead to the creation of many new programs within DARPA, NSF, NASA, and in commercial technology corporations. He served as Electrical Engineering Department Chairman from 1996 through 2000. Dr. Kaiser has over 100 publications, 100 invited presentations and 21 patents. He has received the Allied Signal Faculty Research Award, the Peter Mark Award of the American Vacuum Society, the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, the Arch Colwell Best Paper Award of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and two R&D 100 Awards. In 2019, he became an elected Fellow of IEEE.

Research interests
Kaiser's research has concentrated on the development of distributed networked, embedded computing for linking the Internet to the physical world. The applications for this technology that his group has pursued include distributed systems for factory automation, biomedical research, healthcare, space science, security, and defense. His background includes distributed low-power system development, low-power analog and digital electronics, low-power wireless communication systems, and microsensor technology. Kaiser’s teaching efforts include the development of new courses for both undergraduate and graduate programs emphasizing a combination of fundamental concepts and applications to design.

References

External links
 Biography for William Kaiser at UCLA
 
 

Wayne State University alumni
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Living people
1955 births
Scintex Aviation. Scintex Aviation S.A. was a French aircraft manufacturer which was active between 1956 and 1964.

Formation
Scintex was formed in 1956 by Jean-Michel Vernhes and a production line was established to build the Piel CP.301 Emeraude, designed by Claude Piel, initially as the CP.30, under licence for French club and private owners.

Aircraft production
The Scintex version of the Emeraude was the standard design with upward-opening cabin doors. From 1960 the CP.301C version was introduced, and this incorporated a single-piece clearview sliding canopy.

Claude Piel, who had worked for SCANOR (Societe de Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord), which built Emeraudes, joined Scintex in 1959 and the company introduced the CP.1310 Super Emeraude which first flew on 20 April 1962 and incorporated a strengthened airframe for elementary aerobatics and a generally cleaned-up layout. The majority of the Scintex Emeraudes and Super Emeraudes were built at the Menavia factory at Clermont-Ferrand, but the CP.320 version was intended for construction by amateurs.

Scintex own aircraft designs
In the early 1960s, Scintex wished to broaden its line of aircraft and flew the ML 145 Rubis four-seat touring aircraft on 24 May 1961.  This was developed into the Scintex ML 250 Rubis which first flew on 3 June 1962. The improved Rubis had a more powerful engine and was equipped with five seats. Competition from established all-metal aircraft such as the Beech 35 Bonanza resulted in only eight Rubis being completed.

Cessation of aircraft production
With the lack of sales success with the Rubis, Scintex abandoned aircraft production in late 1964. At the same time, the firm subcontracted construction of all Super Emeraudes to CAARP at Beynes-Thiverval airfield near Paris and in due course CAARP built the aircraft in its own right.

References
Notes

Bibliography

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France
Flood Control Act of 1939. Flood Control Act of 1939 (FCA 1939)  (ch. 699, 53 Stat. 1414), enacted on August 11, 1939, by the 76th Congress, authorized construction of flood control projects across the United States. The Act authorized the transfer of ownership of local and state dams to the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The Act was also instrumental in establishing the Federal policy of cost-benefit analysis, the standard by which the government determines whether or not a project provides sufficient benefits to justify the cost of expending public funds. It specified the standard that "the benefits to whomever they accrue [be] in excess of the estimated costs.

See also
Other flood control provisions enacted in 1939 can be found under:
the Omnibus Flood Control Act, which authorized 35 preliminary flood control surveys; declared the Alamorga Dam and Reservoir on the Pecos River, New Mexico, authorized for the purpose of controlling floods; and in other ways promoted the project of flood control. 
the State-Justice-Commerce Appropriation Act (approved June 29), which authorized projects on the Rio Grande.
the Military Appropriation Act (approved April 26), which granted $305,188,584 for the civil functions of the War Department. The largest items here were $133,000,000 for general flood control work; $96,000,000 for the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works; $39,000,000 for flood control along the Mississippi River and its tributaries and $24,774,924 for the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone.

References

External links
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Printable copies of legislation  including this Act.

1939 in the environment
1939 in American law
76th United States Congress
United States federal legislation articles without infoboxes
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