omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
96th Engineer Battalion (United States). The 96th Engineer Battalion was a military engineer unit in the United States Army. The battalion, which was composed mainly of African-American troops, served during World War II and was also known as the 96th Engineer General Service Regiment.

History

The 96th Engineer Battalion was activated as the 9th Engineer Battalion (Separate) at Fort Bragg on 1 June 1941. It embarked at New York on 4 March 1942 and arrived in Australia on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, on 9 April 1942.

Troops from US 96th Engineers were stationed at a base on Townsville's western outskirts known as Kelso. This was the site for a large-scale siege lasting eight hours known as the Townsville mutiny, which was sparked by racial taunts and violence. The soldiers took to the machine guns and anti-aircraft weapons and fired into tents where their white American counterparts were drinking, killing one, severely injuring dozens and expending 700 rounds.

After this they were stationed at Port Moresby on 28 April. On 29 July 1942 it was redesignated the 96th Engineer General Service Regiment, and moved to the Philippines on 22 April 1945, where it was inactivated on 15 February 1946.

See also
 Townsville mutiny

Notes

References
Dunn, Peter NEGRO SERVICEMEN RIOT AT THE UPPER ROSS, TOWNSVILLE ON 22 MAY 1942 Australia at War {Copyrighted}

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African-American history of the United States military
Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School. Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School or Phelps A.C.E. High School is a public high school in the northeast quadrant of the District of Columbia, United States.

The school is often considered a prime example of the school investment program currently occurring in DC. Having fallen victim to time and neglect, the school was rebuilt by an award-winning architect from several smaller buildings into its current form. Along with architecture, construction, and engineering, other courses are also taught there, including vehicle maintenance/repair and operation of large vehicles such as cranes and diggers on state-of-the-art simulators. The school also has a small greenhouse where the students can tend plants. The school powers its buildings by various renewable energy sources (indicated by the color-coded pipes inside, each color denoting a different system). As part of their coursework, the school entrusts students to monitor and maintain components of this system.

References

External links 
 
 DCPS Profile

District of Columbia Public Schools
Educational institutions established in 1912
Vocational schools in the United States
Historically segregated African-American schools in Washington, D.C.
Public high schools in Washington, D.C.
1912 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Magnet schools in Washington, D.C.
Walter Chmela. Walter Frank Chmela (28 May 1926 – 10 July 2021) was an Austrian-born Canadian aviator. He set many Canadian records in the field of soaring. He was a leading promoter of the sport of soaring in Canada.

Biography 
At age 14 he did his first solo glider flight and gained his Glider Pilot License in 1943. He studied engineering at the University of Vienna. Upon graduation he worked in the reconstruction. In 1950 he moved to Toronto, Canada.

After working in the engineering field for several years he formed his own company, Indesco international Ltd. He would operate this company until 1995.

When he arrived in Canada, Walter co-founded  a gliding club. Because they needed tow pilots he gained a pilot's license and bought a Taylorcraft Auster. Later he founded the York Soaring Association in Toronto, funding much of the club including the land for the airfield, the hangars, gliders and tow planes. Walter was also instrumental in organizing gliding camps for the Canadian Air Cadets, more than 500 Cadets have benefited from these camps over the years.

Chmela died on 10 July 2021, at the age of 95.

Gliding records
 Single Seat Absolute Altitude record, 12,449m (41,000'ASL), 1974
 Multi Seat Absolute Altitude record, 10,390m (35,000'ASL), 1975
 Multi Seat Speed Closed Circuit Out and Return record, 65kmph, 1976

Awards and honours
 Paul Tissandier Diploma
 Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame 2006

Notes

References
 York Soaring Association website, 2011
 Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame website, 2011

External links 
  http://www.yorksoaring.com/history
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74K9gBlEhmQ
  http://www.cahf.ca/board_of_directors.php

1926 births
2021 deaths
Aviation history of Canada
Canadian aviators
Canadian aviation record holders
Monks Trod. Monks Trod is a byway open to all traffic in Wales, developed originally by Cistercian monks between the twelfth century abbeys of Cwm-Hir, near Llandrindod Wells, and Strata Florida, near Tregaron, Ceredigion.

Monks Trod runs for more than  in Powys as a byway across the Cambrian mountains, and then crosses into Ceredigion, becoming a  stretch of unclassified road. The  section between Pont ar Elan beside the Craig Goch Dam reservoir, and Strata Florida passes over a natural peat moorland, designated as a National Nature Reserve Claerwen (NNR), Site of Special Scientific Interest (Elenydd SSSI), Special Protection Area (Elenydd – Mallaen), and a Special Area of Conservation.

In 1990, as a result of widespread damage to the SSSI section, a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) was placed on the Monks' Trod, banning four-wheeled vehicles only. In 2002 a temporary TRO was imposed, banning all motor traffic, including motorcycles.

The TRO banning motorcycles came to an end on 20 October 2021, and it is currently, once again, legally open to vehicles with two wheels.

While the TRO was in place, Natural Resources Wales along with independent ecological specialists looked at the likely effects of carrying out surfacing and drainage work on the iconic byway which is notorious for its boggy and difficult ground. A complex environmental assessment – known as a Habitat Regulations Assessment – was carried out, to identify what effect any proposed repairs and improvements to the route within Powys might have on the whole of the area, which is designated as a Special Area for Conservation. The assessment concluded that the council will not be able to proceed with any proposed surfacing works at this current time.

The status of the byway is under constant review, and user groups are encouraged to be ever-mindful that if the route is not respected, then it is likely to be permanently closed. It is estimated that it would cost in excess of £300,000 to repair the route.

References

Roads in Wales
Historic trails and roads in the United Kingdom
Ceredigion
Powys
Cistercian Order
Lilly Bridge. Lilly Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at Lilly in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. It was built by the Allegheny Portage Railroad in 1832, and is an  bridge, with an elliptical shape and curved wingalls. It is built of roughly squared ashlar and crosses Burgoon Run.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania

References

External links

Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
Railroad bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Bridges completed in 1832
Bridges in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Stone arch bridges in the United States
J.D. Adams & Company. J.D. Adams & Company was founded in 1885 by Joseph D Adams who invented the first leaning-wheel pull grader and was based in Indianapolis. The company manufactured construction machinery including sheepsfoot rollers, dozers and graders from its factory. The company catalogues also listed products by Acme Road Machinery Company though the association is unknown beyond the product listings. In 1955 LeTourneau-Westinghouse purchased J.D. Adams & Co and continued to operate under the name until 1960.

See also
 M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc.

References

Construction equipment manufacturers of the United States
1885 establishments in Indiana
Manufacturing companies based in Indianapolis
1960 disestablishments in the United States
Jungle computing. Jungle computing is a form of high performance computing that distributes computational work across cluster, grid and cloud computing.

The increasing complexity of the high performance computing environment has provided a range of choices beside traditional supercomputers and clusters. Scientists can now use grid and cloud infrastructures, in a variety of combinations along with traditional supercomputers - all connected via fast networks. And the emergence of many-core technologies such as GPUs, as well as supercomputers on chip within these environments has added to the complexity. Thus, high-performance computing can now use multiple diverse platforms and systems simultaneously, giving rise to the term "computing jungle".

See also
 Heterogeneous computing

References

Supercomputing
Anthony Cullis. Anthony George Cullis FRS (16 January 1946 – 9 December 2021) was a British electronic engineer, and professor at University of Sheffield.

Life
Cullis was born on 16 January 1946 in Worcester. He earned a BA at the University of Oxford in 1968, and MA, and DPhil in Semiconducting Materials at Oxford University in 1972.

He died on 9 December 2021, at the age of 75.

References

External links
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/eee/staff/t_cullis

1946 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
British electrical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Society
Academics of the University of Sheffield
Waspair HM 81 Tomcat. The Waspair HM 81 Tomcat is a British canard ultralight aircraft of unusual design, that was produced by Waspair and later Midwest Microlites. The designer is disputed and Chip Erwin, Larry Whiting and Robin Haynes are all named as designers. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a high-wing supported by dihedral stabilizers, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft structure is made from aluminum tubing. Its  span wing sits high above the pilot's seat, providing pendulum stability. The controls are very unconventional and all are canard mounted, which has two surfaces. The canard surfaces move in unison to produce pitch and separately, in opposite directions, to produce roll. The large fixed dihedral stabilizers provide yaw control as the wing has no dihedral of its own for yaw coupling. The canard surfaces are mounted to the front of the main keel tube, which serves as a fuselage. The pilot is accommodated on an open seat bolted to the same tube. The Cuyuna 430 powerplant is located behind the pilot.

In service the control system has proved inadequate and the aircraft is difficult to control in flight, particularly in air that is not smooth and there have been a number of loss-of-control accidents. The Virtual Ultralight Museum describes the aircraft as "ungainly and unstable". Reviewer Andre Cliche says of the Tomcat's handling characteristics:

Cliche recommends that Tomcats be scrapped for parts and not flown.

An improved model, the Pintail, was later introduced by Haynes, which has control surfaces on the trailing edge of the dihedral stabilizers, but it is unclear if this fully addresses the original design's deficiencies.

Variants
Tomcat Standard
Initial version with two-axis controls
Tomcat Sport
Improved version with two-axis controls
Tomcat Tourer
Two seat model with two-axis controls
 Haynes Pintail
Improved version with three-axis controls

Specifications (Pintail)

References

External links
Image of the Tomcat 
Tomcat in flight

1980s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Aero-Astra Okhotnik. The Aero-Astra Okhotnik () is a Russian single engine, three seat autogyro of pusher, pod and boom configuration.  It has been developed into several variants from 2001 to 2007.

Design and development
The Okhotonik light autogyro first flew around 2002. It has since been developed through four distinct variants, the changes involving different model Subaru piston engines, several types and diameters of rotors, enclosed accommodation and some alterations to the tail.  Most have been three seat models, though two seaters have been made and at least one flight demonstrated the ability of the Okhotnik to lift five people.

The Okhotnik is based on a low beam carrying seats, cabin, engine and tail.  The three seats are arranged with the pilot alone in front and two close placed seats behind.  The engine and rotor pylon are immediately behind the rear seats.  The cabin of the Okhotnik  2M and 3 variants is rounded and largely glazed, with side access doors. A two blade rotor with a gust-correcting vane just below its hub rotates freely above a support pylon, though it can be hydraulically pre-rotated for jump starts.  The Subaru engine drives a five blade propeller of radius 950 mm (37.4 in), its tips passing close to the fuselage beam. Two tall, narrow chord tail surfaces are mounted at the end of this beam, at right angles to it but splaying outwards to form a V-Tail. They are supported at the top by an arched transverse member, itself attached by straight struts to the rotor pylon.  On the Okhotnik 3 the top of a third, vertical and forward leaning tail surface is attached to this arch, its lower end held aft of the other tail surfaces on a strut to the fuselage beam.

Operational history
The Okhotnik 2M appeared at the 2005 Moscow Salon in 2005 and the Okhotnik 3 at the same event in 2007.  The latter gained its Certificate of Airworthiness in October 2007.  Three two- seat Okhotniks were delivered during the winter of 2005-6.

Variants
Okhotnik 1Open seats, Subaru EJ25 engine and Dragon Wings 8.53 m (28 ft) rotor. Later fitted with a Rotary Air Force rotor.  Lifted pilot and three passengers 16 October 2002.
Okhotnik 2Rotary Air Force 9.14 m (30 ft) rotor. First flew 28 March 2003
Okhotnik 2M Okhotnik 2 modified with enclosed seating and Subaru EJ-20 engine option.
Okhotnik 3Subaru EZ-30 engine. Initial trials completed by November 2006. Enclosed seating and engine. Modified tail surfaces.

Specifications (Okhotnik 3)

References

2000s Russian civil aircraft
Single-engined pusher autogyros
Patterson & Francis Aviation Company. Patterson & Francis Aviation Company was an American aircraft manufacturer and repair service in the earliest days of powered flight. The company started as the Patterson Aeroplane Company, based in San Francisco, California.

In 1912, Chas H. Patterson built and tested his own aircraft based on a Nieuport design. Later aircraft included twin tractor designs from his future partners, Roy Francis and Frank Bryant. Shortly afterward, production moved to 1410 Howard Street.

Patterson built Nieuport style aircraft and custom parts for early aviators such as Fritz Schiller and E.F. De Villa. The company also built aircraft to compete for the Gordon Bennett Trophy. Allan Haines Loughead, co-founder of Lockheed, contracted Patterson for a float to be used on the first Loughead aircraft, the ALCO model G.

In 1913, the company produced a twin-propeller flying boat that competed in the 1913 Great Lakes Reliability Trophy. Competing against Glenn L. Martin, Francis earned 6722 points flying a route around the Great Lakes. The aircraft developed mechanical difficulties around Pentwater, leaving Francis with a twelve-hour train ride to get parts to continue.

The historical papers of the company are now held by the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library.

Aircraft

References

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
William Bateman Hall. William Bateman Hall FREng (28 May 1923 – 6 August 2003) was a British nuclear engineer, and emeritus professor at the University of Manchester.

Early life
He was educated at Urmston Grammar School. He studied at the Manchester Municipal College of Technology, which became University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), graduating in 1950.

Career
He had an engineering apprenticeship from 1939 to 1944 with the Manchester Ship Canal Company. He worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment from 1944 to 1946.

Nuclear energy
He worked from 1946 to 1959 for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Risley, Warrington (former ROF Risley), the northern headquarters of UKAEA near Birchwood (M6 side of Warrington). In 1964 he launched the Manchester-Liverpool joint research reactor, known as the Universities Research Reactor.

University of Manchester
He was the first Professor of Nuclear Engineering, from 1959 to 1986, at the University of Manchester, the heyday of Britain's nuclear energy industry. In 1976 he launched the undergraduate degree in Nuclear Engineering. Initially, whilst at UKAEA, he worked for the University of Manchester two days a week.

He was awarded the 1978 James Clayton prize, by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Personal life
He married Helen Dennis in 1950, and had four daughters.

References

External links
 School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

 

1923 births
2003 deaths
Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester
Alumni of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
British nuclear engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
People educated at Urmston Grammar
Émile Bachelet. Émile Bachelet (30 January 1863 – 2 May 1946) was a French-American inventor. In the 1880s, he worked in the United States as an electrician. After discovering therapeutic qualities of magnetic fields especially with arthritis patients, he began to commercialize this practice. While doing so Bachelet began to experiment with magnetic fields. 

Bachelet was born in Nanterre, the son of Henri Bachelet. He immigrated to the United States in 1883 and became an American citizen in 1889. He died in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Bachelet was granted  in 1912 for his "Levitating Transmitting Apparatus." which was meant to transfer mail and small packages on a cart which was levitated above a track of electromagnets. The patent also talked of a large version transporting freight or passengers. In 1912 Bachelet demonstrated a model to the press in Mount Vernon, New York.

A vaudeville show called The Bachelet Mystery opened in London and New York in early 1913 demonstrating the wonders of electromagnetism using equipment supplied by Bachelet.

In 1914 he presented his model to the Admiralty in London, England where a one-meter-long aluminum mobile agent hovered in a state of levitation, one centimeter above an 11-meter-long guide (which was the first example of a magnetic levitation train). The press used the words "flying train".

Winston Churchill who assisted the demonstration said it was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen in his life.

The Bachelet Levitated Railway Syndicate Limited was registered 1914 Jul 9 in London, just weeks before the start of WWI.

References 

19th-century French inventors
French emigrants to the United States
1863 births
1946 deaths
119 series. The  was a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type which was operated on local services in Japan by Japanese National Railways (JNR) and later by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) between 1983 and March 2012.

Design
The 119 series design was based on the earlier 105 series EMU type, with improvements to cope with the steep gradients and winter climate of the Iida Line.

Variants
 119-0 series (Eight two-car sets, E10–17)
 119-100 series (single-car sets converted by adding a second driving cab)
 119-5000 series (Nine two-car sets, E1–9, converted by adding inverter air-conditioning)
 119-5100 series (Nine single-car sets, M1–9, converted from 119-100 series sets by adding inverter air-conditioning)
 119-5300 series (Eight two-car sets, R1–8, converted from 119-5000 series sets for wanman driver-only operation)

Formations
The sets were formed as follows.

119-0 series 2-car sets E10–17

The KuMoHa 119 car was fitted with one lozenge-type pantograph.

119-100 series single-car sets M1–9

Each car was fitted with one lozenge-type pantograph.

119-5000 series 2-car sets E1–9

The KuMoHa 119 car was fitted with one lozenge-type pantograph.

119-5100 series single-car sets M1–9

Each car was fitted with one lozenge-type pantograph.

119-5300 series 2-car sets R1–8

The KuMoHa 119 car was fitted with one lozenge-type pantograph.

Interior
Passenger accommodation consisted of a mixture of longitudinal bench seating and transverse four-seat bays. The KuHa 118 cars were equipped with a toilet.

Livery variations
Set E4 was repainted into its original JNR era livery in August 2009.

History

From 18 March 1983, all Iida Line services were made no-smoking.

From 3 March 2001, Iida Line services were switched to wanman driver-only operation.

The fleet was replaced by 213-5000 and 313-3000 series EMUs on the Iida Line, with the last train running on 31 March 2012.

Resale
Following withdrawal, six 2-car 119 series sets were sold to the third sector railway operator Echizen Railway in Fukui Prefecture, where they were converted to become Echizen Railway 7000 series EMUs, entering service from February 2013.

References

External links

Electric multiple units of Japan
Central Japan Railway Company
Train-related introductions in 1983
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
Adam Cheyer. Adam Cheyer (born c. 1966) is a co-founder of Siri Inc. and formerly a director of engineering in the iPhone group at Apple.

Early life and education
Cheyer attended Sharon High School, in Sharon, Massachusetts. After graduating in 1984, Cheyer earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brandeis University in 1988, and a master's degree in computer science and artificial intelligence from UCLA in 1993.

Career
Prior to Siri, he was a computer scientist and project director in SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center, where he was the Chief Architect on the CALO project. Cheyer was also a member of the founding team at Change.org and a founder of Sentient Technologies (formerly Genetic Finance).

Adam left the Siri team in 2012 and founded Viv Labs, which was acquired by Samsung in 2016.

After leaving Samsung, Adam Cheyer co-founded GamePlanner.AI with Siamak Hodjat, which was acquired by Airbnb in late 2023. As of May 2024, Adam is the VP of AI Experience at Airbnb.

Selected publications

References

External links
 Official website
 Adam Cheyer Keynote Speaker Bio Page
 A patent in speech assistance Personalized vocabulary for digital assistant, published Dec 2, 2014 (Google Patents website)

Living people
SRI International people
Apple Inc. employees
Artificial intelligence researchers
Brandeis University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
1966 births