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Altorfer Bros. Company. The Altorfer Bros. Company was a washing machine manufacturer founded by brothers A.W. and Silas Altorfer in Roanoke, Illinois, in 1909.

History 
The brothers first created a power clothes washer after watching their sisters and mother hand-washing piles of clothes. It was basically a wooden tub mounted to a bench with wooden "fingers" to wash the clothes, and attached to a gasoline engine. The brothers invented the machine in the basement of their father's hardware store. When they could no longer fulfill orders in the basement, they moved to a factory in an old schoolhouse. In 1911, they outgrew the schoolhouse and built a new two-story factory next to the Santa Fe railroad line in Roanoke. After two years, sales of the new power washer were in the thousands. They called the machine the Roanoke Power Machine.

The company became known as the ABC Washer Company and its appliances were sold under the ABC brand. The factory in Roanoke was expanded in 1912. The Roanoke factory was destroyed by fire on February 12, 1914; in March, the company announced it would rebuild on the original foundation. On March 24, 1914, the company purchased  in East Peoria to construct a factory. The company built a new factory on West Washington Street in East Peoria, and the wooden tub was replaced with a metal tub. In 1927, ABC produced the first porcelain-lined tub. In 1928, ABC took over the Federal Washing Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois, which was producing washing machines for the Insull utilities company founded by Samuel Insull. ABC became Insull's supplier and made washing machines under the Fedelco brand exclusively for them. In August 1931, Altorfer signed a contract with Westinghouse Electric to produce three models of washing machines.

In the mid-1930s, ABC introduced a spin dryer model which eliminated the wringer and added a spin dryer to the conventional washing model. ABC filed patents for a swinging wringer. ABC also used case-hardened steel parts and precision manufacturing.

On May 15, 1943, the factory produced its last appliance and nine months later, began to produce armaments for World War II. Clyde Ulrich, the director of manufacturing at ABC, tested shells that could pierce the armor of the German tanks. The company also manufactured shells during the Korean War.

In 1952, Altorfer Bros. Company was purchased by the Nash-Kelvinator company, and began manufacturing products under the Kelvinator brand as well. The East Peoria plant was destroyed by fire in 1957.

Awards 

 Rice Leaders of the World Association, 1935
 Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, 1935
 Army-Navy Production Award

Museums 
ABC washing machines from the 1900s can be seen at the Wheels O' Time Museum.

References

Manufacturing companies established in 1909
American Motors
Nash Motors
Home appliance manufacturers of the United States
Defunct companies based in Illinois
Peoria, Illinois 
Companies based in Woodford County, Illinois
1909 establishments in Illinois
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1952
1952 disestablishments in Illinois
Form liner. Form liners are the liners used in the preparation of designs on concrete walls. The use of form liners often results in more attractive walls for highways, neighborhoods, beaches and parks. Form liners come in many different shapes and designs, and can produce a variety of different results on concrete.

The process typically begins with a determination that an aesthetically interesting barrier is needed.  Then concept drawings are made by the design team and presented for approval.  Once the design is accepted by the surrounding neighborhood and building team, the drawings evolve into sculptured creations.  The sculptor can create the original work using a variety of mediums, such as clay, polyurethane and wax. When the masterwork is finished, a cast is made using synthetic liquid rubber, and from this cast, form liners are produced in the reverse image of the original.

A form liner panel is placed on the inside of a concrete forming system before the concrete has been poured and acts as a mold for the concrete to be formed against. Once the concrete has set, the forming system can be removed and the form liner can be stripped from the hardened concrete surface. The resulting concrete surface is permanently textured with the pattern of the form liner.

Types 

There are several different types of form liners, which vary based on the application. Single-use form liners are usually made of styrene plastic and are normally discarded after the first use. Multi-use form liners are usually made of ABS plastic and range in number of uses from 2 to 10 or more. Multiple-reuse form liners are usually made of polyurethane, a heavy rubber material known for its reusability and used frequently by departments of transportation on sound walls, bridges and other applications. Other form liner materials used can include polystyrene foam, fiberglass, and even aluminum-- styrene plastic, ABS plastic, and urethane are considered to be the industry standard, and are most often specified in plans by architects and engineers.

The form liners are attached to forms and concrete is placed against the liner. The liner pattern is transferred into the wet concrete. After the concrete has cured, the liner is stripped and the unique sculpture is exposed.

Origins 
Architectural elastomeric urethane form liners were pioneered in 1968 at RECKLI GmbH, Herne Germany. The inception of form liners began with fairly simple images for concrete, including cut-out shapes and silhouettes resting on a background texture. As time passed, these designs grew in complexity, and creative artists and sculptors began to work with form liner manufactures to produce and design anything imaginable in concrete walls, and on a grand scale.

Form liner textures were popularized in the early 1970s with graphic inlays. In 1972, form liner manufacturers created a fluted form liner with graphic inlays of shrimp boats, a famous crawfish wrapped around an oil bearing, tug boats and race boats. This sound/retaining wall, located in Morgan City, LA, was to be the first use ever of graphic inlays in form liner.

References

Architectural design
Construction
Structural system
Concrete
Butterfly (dinghy). The Butterfly is a one-design sailing dinghy, originally designed for a crew of two, but now most commonly raced single-handed. It was designed in 1961 in Libertyville, Illinois by John Barnett. The  hull is a scow design.  The craft has a stayed  mast set as a Marconi rig with a single mainsail with a  surface area.  The cockpit is 15 ½" deep, exceptionally deep for this size of sailboat, and can accommodate an adult up to 6 feet in height.

History
The boat was first designed by John Barnett of Libertyville, Illinois in 1961, who was inspired to make a smaller version of the C Scow, a popular sailing skiff. With the help of Dr. Robert Chamberlain, Mike Daskilakis, and Jim Miller the class was officially launched in 1962. The first Butterfly nationals was held at Grand Rapids Yacht Club in 1962, after which the boat was declared the official training boat of the Western Michigan Yachting Association. Barnett quickly moved production to Kenosha, Wisconsin where it stayed until he sold the company in 1982 to Hedlund Marine in Willmette, Illinois, but production was kept in Wisconsin. In 2007, Hedlund Marine sold production to Windward Boatworks of Princeton, Wisconsin.

Fleets
 Crystal Lake Yacht Club
 Glen Lake Yacht Club
 Grand Rapids Yacht Club
 Leland Yacht Club 
 Long Lake Yacht Club
 Missouri Yacht Club
 Muskegon Yacht Club
 Powers Lake Yacht Club
 Sail Dubay
 Camp Michigania Yacht Club
 Spring Lake Yacht Club
 Torch Lake Yacht Club
 Union Sailing Club
 White Lake Yacht Club
 White Rock Boat Club

Sources
National Butterfly Association:  boat specifications and class history

External links

 

Dinghies
1960s sailboat type designs
Scows
Mimic Simulation Software. Mimic Simulation Software is a simulation software developed by MYNAH Technologies that allows modeling of process plant unit operations. Mimic supports simulation of Foundation Fieldbus, ProfibusDP, DeviceNet, As-I Bus and HART smart field devices. Process industries using Mimic include hydrocarbon production, refining, petrochemical, specialty chemical, life sciences, food and beverage, pulp and paper, mineral production, and industrial energy.

History 
Developed in 1985, SIMVOX was the first simulation software application for Fisher Controls PROVOX Distributed Control System. SIMVOX was a VMS-based simulation software package used for PROVOX system testing and training. It was adopted by Fisher Controls as the worldwide platform for PROVOX testing and training in 1986. From 1986 to 2002, Munger's product development team continued to develop their simulation capability, supporting Munger's process control business, Fisher Controls, and Emerson Process Management customers worldwide. Upon the release of Emerson Process Management's DeltaV control system, MYNAH Technologies release Mimic for full testing of all DCS IO and complete operator training.

Mynah was acquired by Emerson in 2017.

References

Simulation software
Handley Page Hendon. The Handley Page Hendon was a British torpedo bomber of the 1920s. A two-seat development of Handley Page's earlier single-seat Hanley, the Hendon was a single-engine biplane. While six aircraft were purchased by the British Air Ministry for evaluation and trials purposes, no further production ensued and the Hendon did not enter squadron service.

Development and design
While the single-seat Handley Page Hanley had lost to the similar Blackburn Dart in fulfilling the requirements for a carrier-based torpedo bomber to equip Britain's Fleet Air Arm, it was recognised by both Handley Page and the Air Ministry that a two-seat aircraft would be more useful both for operational purposes and for experimental work. An order was therefore placed on 27 November 1923 for six two-seat derivatives of the Hanley III, designated the Type Ta (later known as the H.P.25) or Handley Page Hendon to meet the requirements of Air Ministry Specification 25/23 for an interim torpedo bomber.

The first of the six aircraft to fly, (serial N9724) flew on 7 July 1924, with the remaining five flying by September. It had a longer fuselage to accommodate the observer, who was provided with a .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun on a Scarff ring mounting, but initially, was similar to the Hanley III. Tests showed that it was tailheavy when carrying a torpedo, the outer wings being swept back by six degrees to avoid this.

Operational history
The six Hendons were used for extensive trials to investigate various configurations of leading edge slots/slats. These allowed one aircraft to successfully land on  while carrying a torpedo and without using arrestor gear. No further production occurred, the development of automatic slots in October 1927 making the Hendon obsolete.

Variants
Hendon I
Initial configuration. Leading edge slots as Hanley III. Six built.
Hendon II
Improved slot gear. Three converted.
Hendon III
Slotted Flaps. One converted from Hendon II.

Specifications (Hendon)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

Barnes, C.H. Handley Page Aircraft since 1907. London:Putnam, 1976. .
Mason, Francis K. The British Bomber since 1914. London:Putnam, 1994. .
Lewis, Peter. The British Bomber since 1914. London:Putnam, Third edition, 1980. .
"The Handley Page “Hendon”". Flight. 29 July 1926. Page 459–461.

External links

H.P.25 Hendon

1920s British bomber aircraft
Hendon
Carrier-based aircraft
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, also termed as the OBI EE Plus, is Oracle Corporation's set of business intelligence tools consisting of former Siebel Systems business intelligence and Hyperion Solutions business intelligence offerings.

The industry counterpart and main competitors of OBIEE are Qlik Sense, Tableau Software, Microsoft BI, TIBCO Spotfire, IBM Cognos, SAP AG Business Objects, Looker and SAS Institute Inc. The products currently leverage a common BI Server providing integration among the tools.

Extensions 
 OBIA (Oracle Business Intelligence Applications)
 Oracle Scorecard: an implementation of balanced scorecard reporting.

History

 2000: nQuire formed: Larry Barbetta, President and CEO. Edward Suen, Vice President and CTO.
 2002: Siebel purchases nQuire.  
 2005: Oracle purchases Siebel (7.8.3.1) 
 2010: 11g Version Released
 2015: 12c Version Released

References

Bibliography

External links
 Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation
 OBIEE Blogs

Oracle software
Business intelligence companies
Business intelligence software
Business analysis
Big data companies
Data and information visualization software
Oracle BI server. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is a business intelligence server developed by Oracle. It includes advanced business intelligence tools built upon a unified architecture. The server provides centralized data access to all business related information in a corporate entity. It integrates data via sophisticated capabilities from multiple sources.

Component of OBIEE

Oracle BI Server is a query, reporting and analysis server and provides services to the other components of the Business Intelligence suite such as Data mining, Reporting, and Analytic Applications. The Server uses ODBC 2.0  which provides a standard software API method for using database management systems and JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) which is an API for the Java programming language. The BI server compiles incoming query requests into an executable code and then execute the code. Clients of the BI Server work with a logical data
independent of the data sources, and they submit them to the BI server. The server translates the data to some combination of physical SQL and sends them to the back-end databases.

Server administration functions include facilities such as monitoring, statistics logging, cancellation, session and query management. The administration of the server is managed internally with using standard protocols e.g. Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP services(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) which is an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP and IP.

Query compilation in BI  server has five phases:
 Parsing
 Logical Request Generation
 Navigation
 Rewrite
 Code Generation

Parsing
The multi-functional parser accepts the full ANSI SQL92 syntax as its input and its main function is to generate a parse tree which is a tree data structure that represents the syntactic structure of a string as its output.

Logical Request Generation
A component of the logical request generation takes the parse tree and makes of it a logical request tree that describes the precise semantics of the requested data in simplifieds SQL.

Navigation
The navigator processes the navigation.

Rewrite
The rewrite's output is the execution plan. This phase distributes relational query optimization and suitable native SQL generation.
The phase of rewriting covers:
 Multi-database join plan generation
 Function shipping
 Functional compensation analysis
 Optimized SQL generation

Code Generation
Code generation in the server produces native query processing language directives to communicate with remote databases. It also produces a code for any remaining query processing that has not been function shipped to remote databases. Parallel execution directives are inserted in this code and it is used for the analytics execution engine.

References

Oracle software
Gary Culliss. Gary Culliss (born 1970) is an American entrepreneur who has founded several technology companies, including the search engine company Direct Hit Technologies and the interactive voice telecommunications company, SoundBite Communications (NASDAQ: SDBT).

Biography
Culliss grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and has a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of South Florida, a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.  He currently lives with his wife and four children in Rye, New Hampshire.

Patents
Culliss holds a number of patents relating to computer and telephony systems, including US Pat. 6,006,222, US Pat. 6,078,916 and US Pat. 6,014,665 all entitled "Method for organizing information," as well as US Pat. 6,785,363 entitled "Voice message delivery method and system" and US Pat. 7,054,419 entitled "Answering machine detection for voice message delivery method and system."

References

External links
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/tech/techthursday/dotcom/talk/walker012899.htm

21st-century American businesspeople
Living people
1970 births
University of South Florida alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Wharton School alumni
Cycle oil. Cycle oil is a light lubricating oil suited for use on bicycles and similar devices.  It is a liquid residue produced in the petroleum industry when catalytic cracking is employed to convert heavy hydrocarbon fractions remaining from earlier stages of crude oil refining into more valuable lighter products.

Catalytic cracking produces petrol (gasoline), liquid petroleum gas (LPG), unsaturated olefin compounds, cracked gas oils, cycle oil, light gases and a solid coke residue. Cycle oil may be processed further to break it down into more useful products; in particular it may be mixed with heavier products and put through the refining process again (recycled).

References

Further reading
 

Petroleum based lubricants
Oils
Oshawa Metal. Oshawa Metal or Oshawa Metal Centre is a General Motors of Canada facility in Oshawa, Ontario.

Built in 1986 to supply metal for Chevrolet Lumina and Buick Regal made in Oshawa, the plant now makes steel used at the Oshawa Car Assembly plant and other GM customers. It is GM's only metal facility in Canada located close to an assembly plant.

The  facilities makes over 80,000 parts a day using 337 tons of steel a day to make 22 million parts a year.

References

General Motors factories
1986 establishments in Ontario
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Canada
Buildings and structures in Oshawa
AND Corporation. AND Corporation is a Canadian technology company that was incorporated in 1992. AND Corporation developed Holographic Neural Technology (HNeT), the technology based upon complex-valued phase coherence/decoherence principles in the emulation of neurological learning and function. The company has been active primarily in the object recognition and biometrics application areas. AND Corporation is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Origin
In 1992 the Wiley Series on Sixth Generation Computing Technologies published the book Fuzzy, Holographic and  Parallel Intelligence, The Sixth Generation Breakthrough which introduces the technology.  The author of the article John Sutherland is the founder of AND Corporation. The technology provides holographic superposition of associative information through digital emulation of wave functions. Having recognized the highly advanced learning and storage capacities for associative memory applying these principles, the company received international patents (priority date 1988) for conversion of information to the complex phase representation, and application of complex valued inner and outer products with phase conjugation in the operation of learning and recall. The technology is analogous to quantum computing with respect to superposition of information.

Products
The first version of the HNeT Application Development System was released in 1990 and published in 1991 which contained a number of example applications, based on the complex valued phase coherence/decoherence process.  Among these applications were the complex valued Hopfield network or complex associative memory, which was discovered by S. Jankowski  in 1996 according to A. Hirose et al. The concepts initially developed and applied within the HNeT technology form the basis for several related academic fields; these referred to by the acronyms Quantum neural network (QNN), Holographic associative memory (HAM), Complex Associative Memory (CAM) and Complex Valued Neural Networks (CVNN).

AND Corporation provides the HNeT Application Development System to government and research institutions on a research basis.  The company's primary business activities center on application development and licensing of the HNeT technology.  An example of one applied application area of the HNeT technology is in the biometrics (facial recognition) area where the technology has been licensed to Acsys Biometrics. HNeT provides a full Neuromorphic model of the brain, however is applied principally using simpler substructures based on the cerebellar model.

References

External links
 

Companies based in Toronto
Technology companies established in 1992
1992 establishments in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 1992
Richard J. Puddephatt. Richard John Puddephatt,  was born 1943 in Aylesbury, England. He is a distinguished university professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada. Richard is a former holder of a Canada research chair in material synthesis. He has been studying the fundamental chemistry of gold and other precious metals in the development of new materials for potential applications in health care and electronics. Puddephatt's research interests involve organometallic chemistry related to catalysis and materials science, and he is considered a world expert on platinum and gold chemistry. He has authored two books: The Chemistry of Gold and The Periodic Table of Elements.

Education 
 Penn and Tylers Green Primary School
 High Wycombe Royal Grammar School
 BSc from the University of London in 1965
 PhD from University College London in 1968

Research and career
Puddephatt has conducted research on synthesis, reactivity and elucidation of mechanisms in the organometallic chemistry of the noble metals, particularly related to the role of organometallic compounds in catalysis and in materials science. He has elucidated the mechanisms of reactions in many homogenous catalytic processes, foe instance in studies of oxidative addition and reductive elimination with alkylplatinum and alkyl–gold complexes and of skeletal rearrangements of metallacyclobutane complexes, often called the Puddephatt rearrangement.

Coordinatively unsaturated platinum clusters and platinum–rhenium clusters have been synthesised and shown to be excellent mimics of the surface reactivity, related to heterogeneous catalysis by supported platinum and bimetallic platinum–rhenium catalysts. Commercially useful organometallic precursors for chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of thin films of metals such as palladium, platinum, silver and gold have been discovered and the mechanisms of those CVD processes elucidated. He has also synthesised catenanes and metal-containing polymers by dynamic ring opening polymerisation.

Awards and honours 
Puddephatt was won numerous awards including

 Officer of the Order of Canada
 Distinguished University Professor
 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS in 1998
 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, FRSC
 Canada Research Chair
 Bucke Science Prize and Hellmuth Prize, University of Western Ontario
 Alcan Award and E.W.R. Steacie Award of the Chemical Society of Canada
 CIC Medal of the Chemical Institute of Canada
 Nyholm Lecture Award and Award for Chemistry of the Noble Metals of the Royal Society of Chemistry
 E.G. Pleva Teaching Award
 NSERC Award of Excellence (2001)

References

1943 births
Living people
People from Aylesbury
People educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Alumni of the University of London
Alumni of University College London
Officers of the Order of Canada
Canada Research Chairs
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Fellows of the Royal Society