omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Robert B. Pinter. Robert Bartholomew Pinter was an American biomedical engineer and authority on signal processing in the insect visual system.

Education
He received a BS in electrical engineering from Marquette University in 1957 and an MS from Northwestern University in 1960. He received his PhD in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in 1964, with a thesis entitled A Study of the Dynamic Properties of the Generator Potential of the Limulus Photoreceptor. His MS and PhD were both under Richard W. Jones.

Career
Pinter has joined the University of Washington in 1964 and held joint appointments with the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Zoology. He also held appointments as visiting professor of psychology at Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and visiting fellow of the center for visual sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

His research interests were mathematical and electronic models of the visual and nervous system and linear and nonlinear control theory.

Books by Pinter
 Bahram Nabet and Robert B. Pinter, Sensory Neural Networks: Lateral Inhibition, Taylor & Francis Group, 1991, 
 Robert B. Pinter and Bahram Nabet, Nonlinear Vision, Taylor & Francis Group, 1992,

See also

 Insect vision

Notes

References 
 George S. Smith, Early History of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2005

External links 
 
 Pinter at dlbp
 Article by Pinter

2001 deaths
Educators from Seattle
Marquette University alumni
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
University of Washington faculty
1937 births
European integrated hydrogen project. The European integrated Hydrogen Project (EIHP) was a European Union project to integrate United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE or ECE) guidelines and create a basis of ECE regulation of hydrogen vehicles and the necessary infrastructure replacing national legislation and regulations. The aim of this project was enhancing of the safety of hydrogen vehicles and harmonizing their licensing and approval process.

History
EIHP was launched in 1998.  It was coordinated by Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik GmbH, a German consultancy company.  Its phase 1 lasted from 1998 to 2000.  It consists of 10 partners including research institutes, energy companies and automotive industries such as BMW, Renault, and Volvo.  During the phase 1, information about the existing legislation and safety of alternative propulsion vehicles and related infrastructure was collected.  As a result of the phase 1, UNECE drafted regulations for the onboard storage system for liquid hydrogen, and for the on-board storage system for gaseous hydrogen.

Phase 2 lasted from 2001 to 2004 and it developed drafts of a harmonized regulation for hydrogen-fuelled road vehicles, procedures for periodic hydrogen vehicle inspections, and standards and periodic inspection procedures for the relevant refuelling infrastructure, subsystems and components.  During phase 2, a new liquefied hydrogen (LH2) storage system (cryogenic tank) was designed and manufactured. It was approved safe by TÜV SÜD, the German Technical Inspection Association.  Phase 2 also developed a semi-quantitative risk analysis methodology (Rapid Risk Ranking), which is used for risk assessment of several hydrogen applications.  There were 20 partners of phase 2.

Although regulations worked-out by EIHP are not officially adopted, they are used as guidelines for design and approval of on-board cryogenic storage systems.  For example, General Motors and BMW have announced that they are following EIHP's draft regulations when jointly developing refueling devices for liquid hydrogen vehicles.

Participants
Partners of the European Integrated Hydrogen Project – Phase II were researchers working at the following institutions:

See also
Energy law
Energy policy
Energy supply
Hydrogen codes and standards
Hydrogen economy
World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations

References

External links
EIHP homepage

Hydrogen economy
Fuel cell standards
European Union and the environment
FP5 projects
SM U-137. SM U-137 was a Type U 127 U-boat of the Imperial German Navy during World War I. Her construction was ordered on 27 May 1916 and her keel was laid down by Kaiserliche Werft Danzig. She was launched on 16 December 1916 and she was commissioned on 8 January 1918. She made no war patrols.

References

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Citations

Bibliography

Type U 127 submarines
U-boats commissioned in 1918
World War I submarines of Germany
1916 ships
Ships built in Danzig
SL 16. The SL 16 (also known as Sirena SL16) is a  4.80 m long fiberglass sailing catamaran. It is designed to be sailed by two people.
The SL 16 was selected by ISAF in 2005 for the Youth Sailing World Championships.

It has a D-PN of 73.0

History
The SL 16 was designed in 2003 by Yves Loday. The boat is based on the KL 15.5 from 1993, but has bigger and more modern rig.

 Units build: 800 total, 200 in 2002-2007, 50 in 2007

See also
 List of multihulls

References

External links
sl16.co SLICA (SL International Class association)
ISAF SL16 Microsite

Classes of World Sailing
Catamarans
ECOnetic. ECOnetic was a tradename for certain car models produced by Ford of Europe, introduced in 2008, consisting of one model in each of the Fiesta, the Focus and the Mondeo range, with an emphasis on higher fuel efficiency and low-CO2 emissions.

Design philosophy
As opposed to developing hybrid vehicles like Prius, Ford of Europe took a different design philosophy: to create vehicles that are as fuel efficient as possible, without compromising driving experience. The resultant ECOnetic range focuses on improved design and refinement of existing technology, focusing on three main streams of improvement:
Aerodynamics: models have a redesigned front bumper skirt, which are more aerodynamic, and reduces drag further through use of a smaller lower grill. The car is then lowered on its suspension to improve angle of address to the air, in the case of the Focus by  on the front, and  on the rear. To the side, skirts are introduced together with hubcaps designed to improve airflow. A new and extended rear spoiler reduces rear drag
Resistance: Ford worked with Michelin to create a thinner tyre with lower rolling resistance. The engine's bearings are replaced with lower-resistance versions
Efficiency: engineers re-mapped the 1.6-litre Duratorq TDCi engine, equipped with a coated Diesel Particulate Filter (cDPF), and recalibrated the power steering system. The ECOnetic was the first Ford car to use low-friction transmission oil, which is now uniform on all 1.6-litre diesel European-produced Fords. The 2012 Focus version has a six-speed gearbox, with sixth gear an overdrive.

Models
First announced in late-2007, Ford proposed ECOnetic models in the Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo ranges. The first cars were available to order from dealers in early 2008, priced at £250 above the "Style" models. Delivered to United Kingdom from April 2008, the models was in the lowest bracket of Vehicle Excise Duty and exempt form the London Congestion Charge. 

The second generation Fiesta ECOnetic was launched at the 2008 British International Motor Show. To encourage drivers to be efficient, a green upwards arrow-shaped indicator light within the dashboard's rev counter signals to the driver when to change up to a higher gear for optimum fuel efficiency and thus economy, later also introduced to the Focus model.

The 2012 Focus ECOnetic model includes: Smart Regenerative Charging to reduce alternator resistance; Auto-Start-Stop; electrically operated front grille shutter, to improve high speed aerodynamics.

North America
It is not presently planned to introduce ECOnetic models to the North American market, because, as Business Week noted, the company "doesn't believe it could charge enough to make money on an imported ECOnetic" and doesn't think it would sell enough of the model (350,000/year) to justify the $350 million in upgrades required at their Mexico plant to manufacture it.

References

External links

ECOnetic at ford.co.uk
Green vehicles
Automotive technology tradenames
Ford of Europe
Fischer assay. The Fischer assay is a standardized laboratory test for determining the oil yield from oil shale to be expected from a conventional shale oil extraction.  A 100 gram oil shale sample crushed to <2.38 mm is heated in a small aluminum retort to  at a rate of 12°C/min (22°F/min), and held at that temperature for 40 minutes.  The distilled vapors of oil, gas, and water are passed through a condenser and cooled with ice water into a graduated centrifuge tube. The oil yields achieved by other technologies are often reported as a percentage of the Fischer Assay oil yield.

The original Fischer Assay test was developed in the early low temperature coal retorting research by Franz Joseph Emil Fischer and Hans Schrader. It was adapted for evaluating oil shale yields in 1949 by K. E. Stanfield and I. C. Frost.

See also
 Fischer–Tropsch process

References

Oil shale technology
Name reactions
Chemical processes
USNS Sword Knot. USNS Sword Knot (T-AGM-13) was a missile range instrumentation ship which operated as USAFS Sword Knot on the United States Air Force's Eastern Range during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sword Knot operated under an Air Force contract with Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Sword Knot, assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean area, provided the Air Force with metric data on intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida as part of the Missile Test Project. It operated in the intercontinental ballistic missile re-entry area near Ascension Island, and was home-ported out of Recife, Brazil.

After transfer to the U.S. Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service, Sword Knot was reassigned to the Western Range and home-ported in Port Hueneme, California. There, she provided data on missiles launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

External links 
 Sword Knot at NavSource.com

Missile range instrumentation ships of the United States Navy
Ships built in Los Angeles
1945 ships
World War II merchant ships of the United States
Type C1-M ships of the United States Air Force
Type C1-M ships of the United States Navy
Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
Signals intelligence
Research vessels of the United States Navy
Orbiter (disambiguation). An orbiter is a type of spacecraft.

Orbiter may also refer to:

Space Shuttle orbiter, the main component of the Space Shuttle
Orbiter (simulator), an open source space flight simulator
Orbiter (1985 video game), an educational video game by Spectrum HoloByte
Orbiter (comics), a graphic novel by Warren Ellis
Echo Orbiter, an indie rock group
Orbiter (ride), an amusement park ride
Orbiter (Canada's Wonderland), an HUSS Skylab ride at Canada's Wonderland
 Orbiter 3, see Breitling Orbiter
 Winds Italia Orbiter, an Italian paramotor design
Orbiter (internet slang)
Aeronautics Defense Orbiter, an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle

See also
 Orbital vehicle (disambiguation)
 Orbital (disambiguation)
 Orbit (disambiguation)
James Kemnal. Sir James Herman Rosenthal Kemnal FRSE (born James Hermann Rosenthal; 16 August 1864 – 8 February 1927) was an English engineer and industrialist. He changed his surname to Kemnal in 1915.

Kemnal was born in Rotherhithe in London to a naturalised British father, David Ferdinand Rosenthal, who was a dealer in china and glass, and his wife, Elizabeth Marshall, from Poplar. He was educated at the University of Cologne and undertook an apprenticeship at the engineering works of the Belgian State Railways before joining the Anderston Foundry Co Ltd in Glasgow.

In about 1883, Kemnal joined the American boiler manufacturers Babcock & Wilcox and was soon running their London office. In 1891, a completely independent British branch of Babcock & Wilcox was founded and Kemnal became managing director, a post he held for the rest of his life. The company expanded rapidly and opened branches in France, Germany, Poland, Italy, and Japan.

In 1915, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Archibald Denny, Thomas Parker, Alexander Cleghorn, and James Currie.

He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours for his services to munitions production during the First World War.

In 1889 he married his cousin, Amelia Marshall. They divorced in 1903. In 1906 he married Linda Larita de Leuze. In 1915, they had a son, Stuart Kemnal.

He died at Sandbanks in Dorset on 8 February 1927.

Footnotes

References
Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

1864 births
1927 deaths
Businesspeople from the London Borough of Southwark
University of Cologne alumni
English mechanical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Knights Bachelor
English people of German descent
People from Rotherhithe
British expatriates in the German Empire
British expatriates in Belgium
William B. Taylor (engineer). William Burdick Taylor (February 27, 1824 – February 1, 1895) was an American civil engineer and politician from New York.

Life
He was born on February 27, 1824, in Manchester, Ontario County, New York.

He was educated at Utica, New York, and studied engineering in his brother's office. He began work as a leveler on the Erie Canal in 1848, became Second Assistant Engineer in 1850, First Assistant in 1852, Resident Engineer in 1854, and from 1860 to 1862 he was Division Engineer of the Eastern Division of the State Canals.

He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1862 to 1865, elected on Union tickets nominated by Republicans and War Democrats in 1861 and 1863. In 1869, he ran again but was defeated by Democrat Van Rensselaer Richmond. He was again State Engineer and Surveyor from 1872 to 1873, elected on the Republican ticket in 1871.

He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1877.

He also served two terms as City Surveyor of Utica, New York.

He died on February 1, 1895.

References

Sources
 Political Graveyard
 Engineers bios, at Rochester history
 Rep. state ticket in NYT on October 31, 1871

1824 births
1895 deaths
New York State Engineers and Surveyors
Politicians from Utica, New York
American civil engineers
People from Ontario County, New York
New York (state) Republicans
Atlantic Foundry Company. The Atlantic Foundry Company was an Akron, Ohio-based iron casting manufacturer that operated from 1905 to 1989.  The company was founded by Charles Reymann Sr., an immigrant from Alsace-Lorraine, along with 4 fellow foundrymen, Ewald Erickson, Emil Krill, Fred Spalding, and Phillip Willenbacker, who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean when they migrated to America and named their new business The Atlantic Foundry.  To meet the growing demand for iron, in 1910 they built a modern iron foundry at 182 Beaver Street and in 1919 they added a huge steel foundry at the same site and began a steel casting business.  By this time Erickson and Krill had sold their interest to Reymann and he eventually became the President of the company, and the company was privately owned and operated by the Reymann family until its closing.

At its peak, the company employed 450 people, including its 
 It operated its own credit union.  The company also created a division called Akron Mattress Co., which was later sold in the late 1960s to a private concern that became Schubert Industries Inc.

Atlantic Foundry closed on January 13, 1989. Thomas Reymann, the company's final president, said the manufacturing plant had not been profitable during its final six years.  The Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC), a non-profit program affiliated with Kent State University, attempted to work with the foundry's employees to purchase the company from the Reymann family under the terms of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). However, a lawsuit brought by 125 foundry retirees seeking the resumption of health and life insurance benefits derailed the ESOP negotiations.

References

Companies based in Akron, Ohio
Topflight Corporation. Topflight Corporation is a manufacturer of printed labels and die-cut components. Topflight is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003 certified and creates products for varying industries: Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical, Consumer & Durable Goods, Cosmetic & Personal Care, Electronics, Tire and Automotive.

History

Topflight was founded in 1943 as the Topflight Tool Company, a precision machine shop that made components for World War II aircraft. Identifying the components became necessary, and Topflight designed printing presses to label the parts. After the war, the company moved into the emerging pressure-sensitive label market. Topflight continued to design its own presses throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It added high-performance products including shrinkable film, tamper-evident labels and conductive printing. In 1998, Topflight moved its headquarters to Glen Rock, Pennsylvania.

Sister companies

In 1961, Topflight created Adhesives Research to chemically engineer adhesive solutions existing companies could not achieve. To specifically meet the technical needs of membrane switches and biosensors, Conductive Technologies was formed in 1979. Both companies are now separate entities, but maintain a relationship with Topflight Corporation.

Products and services
Topflight Corporation specializes in digital printing, high-speed flexography, roll-to-roll screen printing, letterpress, hot-stamp printing, die-cutting, laminating and coating. The company operates in a lean manufacturing environment to provide fast turnaround and lower costs for larger companies such as Black & Decker and the Estée Lauder Companies. Topflight is one of the few converters in North America with a robust RFID label program. Additionally, Topflight delivers security printing solutions, most notably microscopic taggants.

References

External links
 

Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania
American companies established in 1943
Companies based in York County, Pennsylvania
Printing companies of the United States
1943 establishments in Pennsylvania
Luscombe Phantom. The Luscombe Phantom was a 1930s American two-seat cabin monoplane and the first product of the Luscombe Aircraft Engineering Company.

Design and development
Donald A. Luscombe formed the Luscombe Aircraft Engineering Company in 1933 at Kansas City, Missouri. The Phantom or Model 1 was the first aircraft built by the company, and first flew in 1934. It was a high-wing braced monoplane with conventional fixed tail-wheel landing gear, and was powered by a nose-mounted 145 hp (108 kW) Warner Super Scarab radial engine. The fully enclosed engine cowling, with individual air vents for each cylinder, was unusual for a US radial engine light aircraft. Apart from the fabric wing surfaces, the aircraft was all-metal, and had a luxury interior with two side-by-side seats in an enclosed cabin. All compound curves were formed by one employee, Nick Nordyke. As a luxury aircraft, it failed to sell in the economical climate of 1930s America, and the company went on to develop cheaper and simpler aircraft.

Specifications

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 
 
  (World War II story of female US aviator, with pictures of Luscombe Phantom)

1930s United States civil utility aircraft
Phantom
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1934
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Hardial Singh Johal. A chief engineer for the Vancouver School Board, Hardial Singh Johal was an avid follower of Talwinder Singh Parmar, and thus closely eyed in the investigation following the bombing of Air India Flight 182. He was alleged to have stored the suitcase explosives in the basement of a Vancouver school, and to have purchased the tickets for the flights on which the bombs were placed.

Moments after a wiretapped phonecall with Parmar on June 20, 1985, a man phoned Canadian Pacific Airlines where he spoke to ticket agent Martine Donahue, and purchased two tickets - one for a "Mohinderbel Singh" for Air India Flight 301 from Tokyo, and another under the name of "Jaswand Singh" for CP Air Flight 086, which was connecting to the Air India flight. The contact phone number left with the ticket agent became one of the first leads tracked by investigators, and was owned by Johal.

The initial phone conversation, as translated, included the following exchange;
Parmar: Did he write the story?
Johal: No he didn't.
Parmar: Do that work first.

It is believed that "writing the story" referred to purchasing the tickets for the flight, and after the tickets were purchased, Johal phoned Parmar back and asked if he could "come over and read the story he asked for", to which Parmar agreed.

In the documentary Air India 182 Mandip Singh Grewal, the son of Air India 182 victim Dajlit Singh Grewal, stated that he and his family met Johal at Vancouver International Airport on the day that his father departed for the flight connecting to Air India 182.

Johal's house was raided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on November 6, 1985 along with the residences of Talwinder Singh Parmar, Inderjit Singh Reyat, Surjan Singh Gill and Manmohan Singh.

On November 15, 2002, Johal died of natural causes at the age of 55.

References

Air India Flight 182
Canadian engineers
Canadian people of Indian descent
2002 deaths
Year of birth missing