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Atlantis Diesel Engines. Atlantis Diesel Engines/ Engineering (ADE) is a South African manufacturer of diesel engines and components, notably for the mining, on and off road applications as well as defense force industries. The company operates from Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa.

History
The company was started by the Government of South Africa following the imposition of United Nations Security Council Resolution 418.  The company was licensed in 1979 to manufacture Mercedes-Benz and Perkins diesel engines, which were primarily destined for military vehicles such as the Ratel IFV, Buffel, Casspir and SAMIL Trucks. The original ADE ceased in 1999 due to insolvency, and was reopened in 2009 by a group of private shareholders. OEM engines and parts including Mercedes/ MAN/ CAT/ BELL/ MTU are distributed by ADE.

References

External links
Atlantis Diesel Engines
Atlantis Diesel Engines at Janes
Official Handing Over Ceremony of Atlantic [sic] Diesel Engines (ADE)

Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1979
Defence companies of South Africa
Manufacturing companies based in Cape Town
Diesel engine manufacturers
Engine manufacturers of South Africa
South African companies established in 1979
Sauda Smelteverk. Sauda Smelteverk is a smelting plant in Sauda, Norway.

It was a plant for producing manganese alloys. It was founded in 1915, and the production was ready in 1923. Together with the hydropower deliverer company Saudefaldene it was owned by Union Carbide. It was named Electric Furnace Products Company until 1976. Sauda Smelteverk was bought by Norwegian corporation Elkem in 1981 and French corporation Eramet in 1999.

The plant was the site of the Sauda Strike in 1970.

References

Manufacturing companies established in 1915
Manufacturing companies of Norway
Companies based in Rogaland
Norwegian companies established in 1915
People's Commissariat of Mortar Armament. The People’s Commissariat of Mortar Armament () was one of the central offices in the Soviet Union, the equivalent of a Ministry, which oversaw the production of mortar weapons.

It was created on November 26, 1941 as the People's Commissariat of General Machine-Building Industry of the USSR (Наркомат общего машиностроения СССР). On February 17, 1946 it became the People's Commissariat of Machine Industry and Tooling of the USSR (Наркомат машиностроения и приборостроения СССР).

Headquarters
The headquarters were in the Chludov building in Moscow at Teatralniy Proezd (Театральный проезд). The phone book does not indicate the address of the Ministry.

List of ministers
Source:
 Pjotr Parshin (20.11.1941 - 17.2.1946)

References

Mortar
1941 establishments in the Soviet Union
1946 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
Defence industry of the Soviet Union
Breda A.14. The Breda A.14 was a prototype three-engined biplane, designed by Società Italiana Ernesto Breda as a night bomber in 1928.

Design and development
The aircraft was proposed to the Regia Aeronautica, but failed assessments, and was abandoned. The aircraft was designed to solve the flight problems experienced on the A.8. The A.14 was tested in 1928, powered by three  Alfa Romeo Jupiter engines. Although performance was improved, the Regia Aeronautica decided not to accept the A.14. To make up for the costs, it was suggested that a demilitarised version be sold to civilians, but a lack of civilian interest resulted in the abandonment of the project.

Specifications

References

Further reading

A.14
1920s Italian bomber aircraft
Biplanes
Trimotors
Aircraft first flown in 1928
Per Christian Hemmer. Per Christian Møller Hemmer (14 May 1933 – 5 February 2022) was a Norwegian physicist.

He was born in Tromøy as a son of Alv Kristiansen and Hilda Møller. He married Ellen Vorvik in 1955.

He became a student in 1951 and graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1956. He took the doctorate already in 1959, and was a research fellow at the University of Copenhagen from 1959 and the Rockefeller University from 1961. He led a project in Oslo between 1963 and 1965, was appointed as docent at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1969 and promoted to professor in theoretical physics in 1969. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1966 and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences from 1967. He was vice president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics from 1984 to 1990. He has also contributed to the use of Norwegian language in university physics education, by writing introductory text books in both thermal physics and quantum mechanics that are used at NTNU and elsewhere.

References

1933 births
2022 deaths
People from Arendal
Norwegian physicists
Norwegian expatriates in the United States
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Collonges – Fort l'Écluse station. Collonges – Fort l'Écluse station (French: Gare de Collonges — Fort l'Écluse) is a disused station near the small town of Collonges and the Fort l'Écluse, in the Ain department, eastern France. It is situated on the Bellegarde-Geneva section of the Lyon—Geneva railway at the junction with the Divonne branch line. It is still staffed by a signal operator, who manages trains from Longeray to la Plaine and operates the points twice per day to allow the daily waste disposal train to join or leave the main line.  It is remarkable for being one of the last places on the SNCF network with operating semaphore signals from the PLM era. Another curiosity is the solar panel, which powers an automatic point greaser.

Gallery

References 

 Train oubliés, Volume 2 : Le P.L.M. (José Banaudo, 1981, 171 pages, Editions du Cabri)

External links
 Video of bell at Collonges station.
 Video: semaphore signal returns to 'Track occupied' after a TGV passes through Collonges station.

Defunct railway stations in Ain
Bonny Estuary. The Bonny Estuary or Bight of Bonny is estuary  on the coast  of Rivers State, Nigeria near Port Harcourt. It forms part of the Campo River delta. The area is dominated by mangrove swamp, similar in vegetation to the estuarine area of the Niger Delta.

Pollution 
A significant inland water body is located behind the suburban Port Harcourt neighborhood of Amadi-Ama. This is the Amadi Creek, an estuary that is located upstream from the Bight of Benin on the north bank of the Bonny River .In addition to the harmful oil spills, the waterway is also battling the swirling toxicity of plastic trash, endangering the species.

References

Rivers of Rivers State
Coasts of Nigeria
Estuaries of Nigeria
Grosso Aircraft Easy Eagle 1. The Great Plains Aircraft Easy Eagle is a single seat homebuilt biplane, powered by a Volkswagen air-cooled engine.

Design and development
The Grosso Aircraft Easy Eagle 1 was designed by Ron Grosso, and the production rights were sold to Great Plains Aircraft Supply Company.

The Easy Eagle 1 is built with a steel tube fuselage that is fabric covered.
The wings are all wooden construction. It uses the same one piece, all-aluminum landing gear as the Monnett Sonerai.

The Easy Eagle is built from plans; there is no kit available, although Great Plains supplies some sub-assemblies. The estimated time to complete the aircraft from the plans is 300-500 hours.

Variants
Grosso Aircraft Easy Eagle 2
Two seat version

Specifications (Easy Eagle)

References

External links

1990s United States sport aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Spartan C2. The Spartan C2 is a light aircraft produced in the United States in the early 1930s as a low-cost sport machine that would sell during the Great Depression.

Design and development
The C2 is a conventional, low-wing monoplane design with two seats side-by-side in an open cockpit. The wing was braced with struts and wires and it carried the main units of the divided fixed undercarriage. Power was supplied by a small radial engine mounted tractor-fashion in the nose, which drove a two-bladed propeller.

Spartan introduced the C2 in 1931 with a 55-hp engine, and sold 16 examples before ongoing economic circumstances brought production to a halt. Spartan then built 2 examples with 165-hp engines to use in their own flying school. These latter aircraft were fitted with hoods that could be closed over the cockpit for training pilots in instrument flying. Spartan offered this version to the U.S. military as a trainer, but officials at the time believed that low-wing monoplanes were unsuitable for pilot training. Spartan also tendered a proposal to the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce to provide its inspectors with a two-seat light aircraft. The design in question was probably the C2-60, but in any case, the tender was not accepted.

Variants
 C2-60 — initial production version with   Jacobs L-3 engine (16 built)
 C2-165 — trainer with  Wright J-5 engine and hood for instrument training for Spartan School of Aeronautics (2 built)

Operators
 Spartan School of Aeronautics (2 × C2-165)

Aircraft on display
Three C2s are preserved in museums — a restored example on display at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, a restored and flyable example at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon, and an example awaiting restoration at the Golden Wings Flying Museum, Blaine, Minnesota.

Specifications (C2-60)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1930s United States sport aircraft
Spartan Aircraft Company aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1931
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Thomas W. Parks. Thomas W. Parks (born March 16, 1939, in Buffalo, New York, died December 24, 2020, in Ithaca, New York) was an American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He is best known for his contributions to digital signal processing, especially digital filter design and computation of the fast Fourier transform. His last work before retirement was in the area of demosaicing.

Academic career 

Tom Parks received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell in 1961. He worked for General Electric for two years, then returned to Cornell to earn his masters and PhD degrees in 1964 and 1967, respectively. Upon graduation he joined the electrical engineering faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he began teaching and working in the nascent field of digital signal processing. In 1972 he and James McClellan published an influential paper on digital filter design. In 1986 Parks returned to Cornell, where he spent the remainder of his career and retired as emeritus professor. Parks received multiple awards based on his research focused on digital signal processing with its application to signal theory, multirate systems, interpolation, and filter design. He co-authored more than 150 books and papers.

Affiliations and awards 

 Senior Fulbright fellowship (1973)
 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award (1973)
 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award (1980)
 Life Fellow, IEEE (1982)
 Third Millennium Medal of the IEEE (2000)
 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2004), together with James H. McClellan
 National Academy of Engineering (2010)

References 

American electrical engineers
Fellows of the IEEE
2020 deaths
1939 births
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Cornell University faculty
General Electric people
Rice University faculty
People from Buffalo, New York
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Engineers from New York (state)
DFS Weihe. The DFS Weihe (English: Harrier) is a German single-seat, high-wing, 18 metre wingspan, high-performance glider that was designed by Hans Jacobs in 1937-38.

Design and development
Jacobs designed the Weihe to be the pre-eminent performance glider of its era and indeed it captured many championships and set many records, until its performance was surpassed at the end of the 1950s. Even today it is considered one of the "classic sailplane designs".

The Weihe is of wooden construction with fabric covering on the wing trailing edges and the control surfaces. The spar is built from Baltic Pine, with a birch leading edge D-box, fuselage and the fixed portions of the tail surfaces. The airfoil is a modified Gö 549-M.2 section. Early versions took off from a dolly and landed on a fixed skid, while later versions has a fixed wheel and skid undercarriage. Originally fitted with DFS-style airbrakes, some were later modified for Schempp-Hirth style brakes instead. The aircraft incorporates a unique rigging system which was widely copied in later gliders.

Initially the aircraft was produced by Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS) (English: German Research Institute for Soaring Flight) and later by Jacobs-Schweyer. Post World War II it was produced by Focke-Wulf as well as in France, Spain, Sweden and Yugoslavia. Production of the Weihe totaled over 400 aircraft.

Operational history
The Weihe won the World Gliding Championships in 1948 and 1950. It was used to set many world and national records, including the world record for altitude gain in 1959 of .

Dick Johnson won the US National Soaring Championships in 1959, flying a Weihe.

Variants
DFS Weihe
Original production version.
Jacobs-Schweyer Weihe
Second production version, before World War Two. Had a larger canopy and longer nose.
Focke-Wulf Weihe 50
Post war production version, with a blown canopy and a fixed wheel.
VMA-200 Milan
Post war French production of the Weihe,  by Minie, Saint-Cyr .

Aircraft on display
Lasham Airfield Gliding Heritage Centre
Museo del Aire, Madrid, Spain
US Southwest Soaring Museum

Specifications (Weihe 50)

See also

Notes

References

External links

Image of a Weihe
Detailed article on Weihe development history

1930s German sailplanes
Weihe
Glider aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938
Russell D. Hale. Russell D. Hale (August 8, 1944 – September 6, 2014) was United States Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) from 1981 to 1984.

Early life and education

Russell D. Hale was born in Sherman, Texas on August 8, 1944. He was educated at the United States Naval Academy, receiving a B.S. in engineering and economics in 1966, and at the Georgia Institute of Technology, receiving an M.S. in information science in 1969.

Military career
Hale joined the United States Department of the Air Force in 1969 as an operation research analyst in the Office of the Comptroller. From 1971 to 1973, he was a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Budget Review, Acquisition Strategies, and Procurement Policies). From 1973 to 1975, he worked at IBM as an account executive to defense/aerospace corporations. In 1975, he joined the professional staff of the United States House Committee on the Budget, national defense function. He moved to the professional staff of the United States House Committee on Armed Services in 1978.

On April 17, 1981, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Hale to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller). He subsequently held this position until February 1984.

Business career
Hale left government service in 1984, becoming Senior Defense Advisor to Chase Manhattan and Drexel Burnham Lambert until February 1986. He then joined the Computer Sciences Corporation as a Vice President, working there until July 1990. From July 1990 to 1994, he was the President of Network Equipment Technology Federal, Inc., a developer and marketer of wide-area networks and related products. In October 1994, he joined the Network Imaging Corporation as a Senior Vice President.

Since 2007, Hale has been a Vice President at Edgesource, Inc.

References

1944 births
2014 deaths
United States Air Force civilians
Georgia Tech alumni
United States Naval Academy alumni
List of X68000 games. The X68000 is a fourth-generation home computer developed and manufactured by Sharp Corporation, first released only in Japan on March 28, 1987. It was the second and last computer to be released under the Sharp brand, succeeding the X1 series. The following list contains all of the known games released commercially for the X68000 platform.

Featuring an operating system written by Hudson Soft called Human68k and bundled with a conversion of Konami's 1987 arcade game Gradius as the pack-in game at launch, the X68000 was very similar to arcade system boards of the time in terms of hardware and served as the development machine for Capcom's CP System. Many add-ons were released including networking, SCSI, memory upgrades, CPU enhancements and MIDI I/O boards, among others that increased the performance of the system. Multiple revisions were later released that included several enhancements compared to the original model, with the last model being released in 1993 before being officially discontinued in the market, though games for the platform kept being created. Games were also distributed through the Takeru software vending machines, which allowed users to write commercial titles or dōjin soft on blank 5.25" floppy disks. Originally released at JP¥369,000, later models were sold for considerably lower prices. It is unknown how many X68000 units were sold in total during its commercial life span.

Games 
There are currently  games on this list.

See also 
 List of cancelled X68000 games
 Lists of video games

Notes

References

External links 
 List of X68000 games at MobyGames

X68000
Constantin Dinculescu. Constantin N. Dinculescu (November 23, 1898, Alexandria, RomaniaSeptember 15, 1990) was a Romanian energy engineer and educator.

Dinculescu designed the electrification of the Bucharest-Brașov railway for Căile Ferate Române, implemented between 1959 and 1966.  Serving as rector of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest between August 1954 and January 1956, and then between December 1956 and April 1968, he contributed to the development of energy engineering education in Romania, introducing a nuclear energy engineering discipline to the curriculum.

He was awarded the Order of Labor in 1963. He became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in March 1952, advancing to titular member in January 1990, after the Romanian Revolution.

Notes

References
M Olteneanu, C. Rucăreanu, “Martin Bercovici-Un om între oameni“, Publisher of the Romanian Academy, 2001
File din istoria energeticii romanesti, vol II, Publisher Nergo, 2007

External links
 Mihai Olteneanu - Acad. Constantin N. Dinculescu (1898 – 1990) Fost rector al Politehnicii bucureștene, inițiator al construcției complexului de clădiri ale noului local, Engineering Univers
 Sorin Costinaș - Development of romanian power engineering in mid  20th century, Noema, vol. III, Nr. 1, 2004
 Nicolae Aurelian Diaconescu - Constantin Dinculescu, poezie.ro

Titular members of the Romanian Academy
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Bucharest
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Timișoara
Rectors of Politehnica University of Bucharest
20th-century Romanian engineers
Căile Ferate Române people
1898 births
1990 deaths
Martin Bercovici. Martin Bercovici (24 August 1902, in Bârlad – 19 January 1971, in Bucharest) was a Romanian electrical engineer who contributed to the development of energy engineering education in Romania and to the plan of electric networks building of Romania. He served as a dean to the then newly founded Faculty of Energy Engineering within the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.

Biography
After graduating from the Gheorghe Roșca Codreanu High School in Bârlad he enrolled into the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.

Bercovici contributed during World War II to the education of young Jews who were expelled from state universities.

In 1955 he was elected corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and in 1963 he was promoted to titular member of the academy.

Notes

References
M. Olteneanu, C. Rucăreanu, “Martin Bercovici—Un om între oameni“, Publisher of the Romanian Academy, 2001

External links

1902 births
1971 deaths
20th-century Romanian engineers
Romanian Jews
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Bucharest
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
People from Bârlad
Titular members of the Romanian Academy
Wilesco. Wilesco is the trade name of German toy company Wilhelm Schröder GmbH & Co. KG, known for manufacturing live steam toys such as steamrollers, traction engines, stationary steam engines, and numerous accessories such as countershafts and drive models.

Initially a producer of aluminium forks and spoons, the company expanded into miniature aluminium accessories for doll's tea parties in the 1920s. This decision also helped the company weather the economic crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s because these toys were also exported to the US.

In 1950, Wilesco started manufacturing miniature steam engines. In 1966, the D36 "Old Smokey" steamroller was introduced which has been popular among collectors and continues to be produced.

The company also manufactures various accessories for their steam engines such as electrical generators, steam workshops and fairground rides. While most of their steam engine models are heated by esbit, electrical heating is also available. Steam-powered toy locomotives (G scale) and an open wagon were also available from Wilesco for a while.

The company still manufactures a range of plastic and aluminium scoops and hooks, as well as steam toys.

Wilesco's main rival is the British-based steam model manufacturer: Mamod. Mamod and Wilesco produce similar models, at similar prices and size range.  In August 2024, Mamod closed.

Gallery

See also
Mamod

References

External links

Official German site
Official USA site

Wilesco models picture gallery
ToySteamBible.org: Wilesco



Toy companies of Germany
Toy steam engine manufacturers
Toy train manufacturers
German brands
Companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia
Toy companies established in 1912
German companies established in 1912
GAMER Manpack. Saab’s GAMER Manpack is used in smaller military exercises when the instructor wants to have control of the exercise and at the same time be able to be near the action. The actual GAMER Manpack consists of a miniaturised radio base station and a laptop with an exercise-command-and-control system. These are small enough to be carried around in a backpack.

The instructor decides through the system what is to happen in the exercise, this is communicated through the radio. Information about what is happening during the exercise is sent back to the system through specific vests the soldiers are wearing (Personnel Detection Devices (PDD's)). In this way it is possible to control simulated minefields, indirect fires and simulated bombs.

The instructor then follows how each soldier acts as an individual and a member of the group. This movement is also saved and the information is then saved to be used in the evaluation of the exercise.

The system is used by the South African National Defence Force.

GAMER Manpack can also be used in civil training. For example, in 2009 the UK Ministry of Defence Police purchased three GAMER Manpacks and related products to be used in their training.

References

External links
 Saabgroup

Military equipment of Sweden
Law enforcement equipment
Military simulation
Saab
Coprocess. In computer science, a coprocess is a process that explicitly yields control to other processes or the operating system.

In Unix, a coprocess is a process that sends its output solely to the exact single process from which it solely received input.

Bash, BETA and ksh have language constructs for coprocesses.

See also 

 Deterministic concurrency

References

External links 

 Coprocesses definition in Bash Reference Manual

Process (computing)
Concurrent computing