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Cesar Vergara. Cesar Vergara is a Mexican-born American industrial designer, specializing in rail transport. He has designed a number of passenger train locomotives and cars, including the GE Genesis, the Talgo trainsets used on Amtrak Cascades, and the MTA M8 railcar, and participated in the prototype development of the French high-speed AGV. He also designed the paint scheme for the DC Circulator and the taxis in Washington, D.C. Vergara has been recognized for his designs with a number of industry awards.

Early life 

Cesar Vergara was born in Mexico, to an architect father. Vergara's father was involved in designing stations for Mexico City's subway, and engaged his son in his work; Vergara's mother also supported his artistic inclinations. The Vergara family moved to Washington, D.C., and Cesar subsequently enrolled in a design school in Sweden at Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. In Sweden, he developed an appreciation for the role of trains in public transit, but "also thought most were awful looking".

Career 

While in Sweden, Vergara had his first opportunity to contribute to train design, as a firm he worked for was involved in designing the X 2000 high speed train.

Cesar Vergara joined Amtrak in 1990 as Director of Vehicle Design and Manager of Car Design, a position he held until 1999. Soon after his hiring, Amtrak president W. Graham Claytor Jr. asked Vergara to lead design efforts for a replacement of the company's EMD F40PH locomotives. In collaboration with GE Transportation, Vergara and the team he supervised came up with the GE Genesis. Unlike their predecessors, the Genesis locomotives incorporated a monocoque (one-piece) design conceived by Vergara, which made them lighter, more efficient, and more aerodynamic, despite being  shorter and producing an additional . His design was a nod to the EMD E-units which once pulled many passenger trains.

In 1999, Vergara left Amtrak to join Teague, a Seattle-based design consultancy. He subsequently joined NJ Transit in 2001 as the agency's first ever chief designer. NJ Transit's then executive director said of his hiring "The first time we met, I suggested Cesar join us instead of just consulting. He couldn't believe I would turn the empire over to him and I couldn't believe a world-class designer would join us". During his time with the agency, Vergara introduced a new paint scheme for rolling stock, along with redesigning stations. Past NJ Transit projects had faced opposition for being "ugly", and Vergara's new designs helped overcome objections.

Vergara returned to private industry in 2003, before forming his own company, Vergarastudio, in 2009, based in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where he lives.

Vergara has described his design philosophy as based on the belief that "we don't need any more ugly things in this world and it costs as much to build an ugly train as an attractive one".

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American designers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Locomotive builders and designers
The Falcon Airscrew Company. The Falcon Airscrew Company was a British manufacturer of wooden aircraft propellers, formed during the first World War. In 1923 they claimed 90% of the United Kingdom's propeller production but had closed by the end of the decade.

History
Formed by D. M. Davies during World War I, Falcon Airscrew gained a good reputation for its wooden propellers and survived the difficult transition to post-war production levels, concentrating on quality handbuilt wooden airscrews. Between 1922 and 1923, business expended significantly, and the company claimed to supply 90% of British aircraft demand. By 1924 Flight reported that they were probably known worldwide as the largest manufacturer of airscrews, producing a very wide range of sizes and types, including two-, three- and four-blade propellers, for almost all current engines. They were the largest suppliers of propellers to the British Air Ministry and most of the British Air Services' aircraft used Falcon airscrews. They also exported to most European countries. Production was running at 100-150 units per week. Falcon Airscrews also introduced a new way of attaching metal sheet to the propeller leading edges to protect them from damage. Despite this dominance in the early 1920s, by the end of the decade Falcon Airscrews had ceased trading.

See also
List of aircraft propeller manufacturers

References

External links 
 Falcon Airscrew's workshop and production methods in 1921

Aircraft propeller manufacturers
Aerospace companies of the United Kingdom
Multi-purpose. Multi-purpose may refer to:

Buildings 
 Arena
 Auditorium
 Civic center
 Coliseum
 Convention center
 Facility
 Gymnasium, also called "Multi-Purpose Room" (MPR)
 Multi-purpose stadium
 Music venue
 Sports venue

Vehicles 
 Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, spacecraft
 Multi-purpose helicopter
 Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, Space Shuttle cargo container
 Multi-purpose vehicle, minivan
 Multi-purpose vessel, cargo ship/freighter

Other uses 
 Multi-Purpose Food
 Multi-purpose reef
 Multi-purpose tool
 Multipurpose tree
 Multi-Purpose Viewer, a software program
 Raufoss Mk 211, armor-piercing ammunition commonly known as Multipurpose.

See also 
 
 
 Purpose (disambiguation)
Bar screen. A bar screen is a mechanical filter used to remove large objects, such as rags and plastics, from wastewater. It is part of the primary filtration flow and typically is the first, or preliminary, level of filtration, being installed at the influent to a wastewater treatment plant. They typically consist of a series of vertical steel bars spaced between 1 and 3 inches apart.

Bar screens come in many designs. Some employ automatic cleaning mechanisms using electric motors and chains, some must be cleaned manually by means of a heavy rake. Items removed from the influent are called screenings and are collected in dumpsters and disposed of in landfills. As a bar screen collects objects, the water level will rise, and so they must be cleared regularly to prevent overflow.

References 

Water treatment
Model Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jammu. Model Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET) is a technical institution located in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The institution was opened in 1998 and is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and affiliated with the University of Jammu.

MIET is accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council with "A" Grade (NAAC), while the departments of Electronics, Communications, Computer Science and Engineering were accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).. MIET is accredited with "A" grade by NAAC and was awarded the "Best Institution award" in 2014 by all north Indian engineering colleges by NITTR. MIET is ranked 51st in the top 100 tech enabled institutions in the recent rankings published by Dataquest.

Departments and courses

The college offers different undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Engineering. This college has the departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communication, Civil Engineering.

External links

References 

Education in Jammu (city)
Universities and colleges in Jammu and Kashmir
Engineering colleges in Jammu and Kashmir
Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology. Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology (Tamil:அக்ஷயா பொறியியல் மற்றும் தொழில் நுட்பக்கல்லூரி) is a private self-financing engineering college in Kinathukadavu, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. The college is approved by AICTE and affiliated to Anna University.

History
Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology (ACET) was established by Akshaya Charitable Trust in the year 2009.

Programmes offered
Undergraduate courses
 B.E. – Civil Engineering
 B.E. – Electronics and Communication Engineering
 B.E. – Mechanical Engineering
 B.E. – Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 B.E. – Computer Science and Engineering
 B.E – Mechatronics
 B.Tech. – Artificial Intelligence Data Science (AIDS)
 B.Tech. – Computer Science and Business System (CSBS)
Postgraduate courses
 M.E. – Computer Science and Engineering
 M.E. – VLSI Design
 M.E. – Structural Engineering

Library 

Library Collections:

Facilities

Hostels

Boys hostel 
The boys hostel has 96 rooms spread over three floors and accommodates about 350 students.

Girls hostel

Transport
Buses are available to all parts of Coimbatore, Pollachi, Udumalpet, Nemmara, Kaliyapuram, Dhasarpatti, Mettupalayam, Alandurai, Dhali, Kerala, Vadavalli, Vellalore, Sundakamuthur, Vaalavadi, Gandhipuram, Avinashi, Parle, Erisinampatti, Devanurpudhur, Elaiyamuthur, Kanuvai, Govindhapuram, Madathukulam, Vaarapatti,   and Pirayari.

Sports 

The college offers the following sports

1. Basketball
2. Cricket
3. Ball Badminton
4. Football
5. Volleyball
6. Throwball
7. Chess
8. Kabbadi

References

External links
 Official website

Engineering colleges in Coimbatore
Educational institutions established in 2009
2009 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off. Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off (LMSR) refers to several classes of the United States' Military Sealift Command (MSC) roll-on/roll-off type cargo ships. Some are purpose-built for military cargo, while others were converted.

Bob Hope class

The  are a group of seven diesel-powered vessels built at Avondale Shipyard in Louisiana between 1993 and 2001 for MSC. They are  long and  wide.

Watson class

The  are a group of eight gas-turbine-powered vessels built at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) in San Diego, California between 1996 and 2002 for MSC. They are  long and  wide.

Gordon class

The Gordon class are group of two LMSRs. Gordon was built in Denmark in 1972 as MV Jutlandia, and entered commercial service on 1 June 1973. After some time spent in commercial service she was lengthened by Hyundai Heavy Industries in 1984, and later went on to be acquired by the US Navy under a long term charter. She was converted for the Navy at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company and on delivery to the Navy was assigned to the Military Sealift Command on 23 August 1996 under the name USNS Gordon. They are diesel-powered,  long and  wide ships.

Shughart class

The Shughart class are group of three LMSRs.  Shughart was built as Laura Maersk in 1980 in Denmark by Lindovaerftet for A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. She was lengthened in 1987 and again in the early 1990s by Hyundai. On May 7, 1996 Laura Maersk was delivered to Military Sealift Command and was outfitted at NASSCO.  They are diesel-powered,  long and  wide ships.

 
 
  (ex-USNS Soderman (T-AKR-299))

See also

References

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Ro-ro ships
Joel Keizer. Joel E. Keizer (31 August, 1942 - 16 May, 1999) was an American biologist and university professor.  He is principally known for his work in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and mathematical modelling of cellular phenomena, in particular human production of insulin.

Canonical theory 

Canonical theory is a molecular theory developed by Keizer and coworkers which claims to explain many physical, chemical, and biological processes in an unified and canonical way. Ronald F. Fox and Keizer showed the application of the canonical theory to chaos.

Keizer used the canonical form for the first formulation of statistical thermodynamics valid in far from equilibrium regimes, where the Onsager reciprocal relations and the Albert Einstein formula for the fluctuations do not work. Keizer also provided fluctuating generalizations of the Boltzmann equation and of hydrodynamics (fluctuating hydrodynamics). The applications of his work to biology are the reason that he was considered as one of the pioneers in the field of computational biology. Cosma Shalizi wrote: Chapter five applies the canonical theory to various chemical and electrochemical processes. There is a detailed comparison of a model based on the formalism to actual experimental data for a calcium-regulated potassium channel in muscle cells, yielding remarkably close agreement (especially since the channel is really just a single molecule!)... Keizer was, until his premature death in May, 1999, an active and talented scientist who played a significant role not merely in the development of the formal structure of far from equilibrium thermodynamics, but also in its application to experiment, especially in biology. Unlike a number of others who have attempted such cross-overs, he made it work.

Besides the unification of disparate topics as chemical reactions, hydrodynamics, or heat transport in solids, the canonical theory has been applied to solving the problems of traditional disciplines as statistical mechanics.

References

1942 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American biologists
University of Oregon alumni
University of California, Davis people
Henry Musgrave Blaiklock. Henry Musgrave Blaiklock (26 April 1790 – 9 October 1843) was an English architect and civil engineer who came to Canada with extended family in the 1820s to pursue his career.

Blaiklock and his family arrived in Quebec around 1824. They were influenced in their decision to emigrate by an invitation from Governor George Ramsay to whom they were related. He and his brother George had quick success in their architectural business, no doubt aided by the governor's patronage.

Blaiklock was Clerk of Works of the Royal Engineers department from 1830 to 1843. He designed the customs building at Quebec and the Marine and Emigrants Hospital. Through these two major works he made a remarkable contribution to English neoclassicism in Quebec.

References 

Canadian architects
1790 births
1843 deaths
W. D. Oddy & Company. W. D. Oddy & Company Ltd was a British manufacturer of wooden aircraft propellers, formed in 1919.  The company was the main supplier of propellers to Blackburn Aircraft in the first half of the 1920s.

History
Oddy worked with the early aircraft pioneer Robert Blackburn, founder of the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company. W. D. Oddy & Company were advertising their airscrews at least as early as 1917. In 1919 Oddy patented a propeller copying and profiling machine.  The limited liability company was formed in October 1919, set up with £25,000 of share capital and Blackburn as co-director. In just over a year from its establishment, Oddy had been granted other patents concerning the design, making and finishing of propellers.

Until the mid-1920s, W. D. Oddy & Co. was the main supplier of airscrews to Blackburn Aircraft. They also provided propellers for other aircraft, including 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) diameter ones for the R38 class airship.  These, built entirely from Honduras mahogany and fitted with a lightning conductor strip from tips to boss, were amongst the largest of their day. Another Oddy propeller took the Alliance-Napier Seabird, powered by a Napier Lion engine, from London to Madrid in less than 8 hours.

In 1920 Oddy were developing a propeller with variable and reversible pitch.

As well as making airscrews for propelling aircraft, W. D. Oddy also built them for other purposes. They saw a future for motor boats driven by aerial propellers and provided a four bladed airscrew for A. E. Guinness' Napier Lion powered boat Oma. Other, smaller Oddy airscrews drove dynamos to provide electrical power.

The company disappears from the records after about 1925; it may have been absorbed into Blackburns later.

See also
List of aircraft propeller manufacturers

References 

Aircraft propeller manufacturers
Aerospace companies of England
Companies based in Leeds
1917 establishments in England
General-purpose. General-purpose may refer to:

 General-purpose technology
 General-purpose alternating current, AC electric power supply
 General-purpose autonomous robots
 General-purpose heat source

Law and government
 General-purpose administrative subdivision
 General-purpose criterion, in international law
 General-purpose district

Military
 A popular false etymology for the Willys MB "Jeep"
 General-purpose bomb
 General-purpose machine gun
 General-purpose mask, M50 Joint-Service
 General-purpose vessel, Explorer class in the Royal Australian Navy

Computing
 General-purpose computer
 General-purpose DBMS
 General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU)
 General-purpose input/output (GPIO)
 General-purpose macro processor
 General-purpose markup language
 General-purpose modeling
 General-purpose operating system
 General-purpose macro processor or general-purpose preprocessor
 General-purpose programming language
 General-purpose register
 General-Purpose Serial Interface (GPSI)

See also

 
 General (disambiguation)
 Purpose (disambiguation)
 Jeep (disambiguation)
 GP (disambiguation)
Trifluoromethyl hypofluorite. Trifluoromethyl hypofluorite is an organofluorine compound with the chemical formula . It exists as a colorless gas at room temperature and is highly toxic. It is a rare example of a hypofluorite (compound with an O−F bond). It can be seen as a similar chemical compound to methanol where every hydrogen atom is replaced by a fluorine atom. It is a trifluoromethyl ester of hypofluorous acid. It is prepared by the reaction of fluorine gas with carbon monoxide:

The gas hydrolyzes only slowly at neutral pH.

Use in organic chemistry
The compound is a source of electrophilic fluorine. It has been used for the preparation of α-fluoroketones from silyl enol ethers.
Behaving like a pseudohalogen, it adds to ethylene to give the ether:

References

Trifluoromethoxy compounds
Fluorinating agents
Hypofluorites
Heavy Press Program. The Heavy Press Program was a Cold War-era program of the United States Air Force to build the largest forging presses and extrusion presses in the world. These machines greatly enhanced the US defense industry's capacity to forge large complex components out of light alloys, such as magnesium and aluminum. The program began in 1944 and concluded in 1957 after construction of four forging presses and six extruders, at an overall cost of $279 million. Six of them are still in operation today, manufacturing structural parts for military and commercial aircraft. They still hold the records for size in North America, though they have since been surpassed by presses in Japan, France, Russia and China.

The program produced ten machines, listed below.

Background

The Heavy Press Program was motivated by experiences from World War II. Nazi Germany held the largest heavy die forging presses during the war, and translated this advantage into high performance jet fighters. Because of the shortage of aluminum, German aircraft manufacturers used forged magnesium structural components, formed to shape in closed-die hydraulic presses.  After finding this, in 1944, the Federal Government asked Wyman-Gordon for assistance, and this program evolved into the Heavy Press Program.  Work was started on an 18,000 ton press, built by Mesta Machinery, which was completed in 1946 at the Wyman-Gordon Grafton Plant.  Post-war, the Soviet Union captured the largest German press to survive the war, with a capacity of 33,000 ton, and were suspected to have seized the designs for an even larger 55,000 ton press. The next two largest units were captured by the United States and brought across the Atlantic Ocean, but they were half the size at 16,500 ton. As Cold War fears developed, American strategists worried that this would give the Soviet Air Force a crucial advantage and designed the Heavy Press Program to help win the arms race.

Seventeen presses were originally planned with an expected cost of $389 million, but the project was scaled back to 10 presses in 1953.

Air Force Lieutenant General Kenneth B. Wolfe was the primary advocate for the Heavy Press Program. Alexander Zeitlin was another prominent figure of the program.

Presses

Landmark designation
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers designated the 50,000-ton Alcoa and Wyman-Gordon presses as Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks. The Alcoa press weighs 8,000 tons and is  tall. The die table is , and the maximum stroke is .

External links

References

1950 establishments in the United States
1957 disestablishments in the United States
Projects established in 1950
Projects disestablished in 1957
Public–private partnership projects in the United States
Industry in the United States
20th-century history of the United States Air Force
Cold War history of the United States
Presswork
Projects of the United States Air Force
Point Bridge. Point Bridge can refer to:
Point Bridge (Pittsburgh), a steel cantilever truss bridge that spanned the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PointBridge, an IT consulting company
Dames Point Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida 
The West Point Bridge Design Contest, a competition for middle school and high school students organized by the United States Military Academy
Point Bridge Capital, an investment company known for "MAGA ETF"
National Sewing Machine Company. National Sewing Machine Company was a Belvidere, Illinois-based manufacturer founded in the late 19th century. The company manufactured sewing machines, washing machines, bicycles, an automobile, home workshop machinery, and cast-iron toys and novelties (under the Vindex Toy Company label).

History

Barnabas Eldredge was an  industrialist connected with the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, a firearms manufacturer that also produced sewing machines with Eldredge. Ames sold off its sewing machine dies and equipment to Eldredge, who went to Chicago. There he joined forces with the existing June Manufacturing Company, founded in 1879 by F. T. June; June Manufacturing already produced the "Jennie June" model. The "Jennie June" was eventually replaced by a superior model designed by Eldredge. Eldredge took over the company in 1890 on the death of June, renaming it National Sewing Machine.

Eldredge led the company until his death in 1911. He was succeeded by David Patton.
 
Harold D. Neff headed up the Vindex toy division between 1916-1951; Vindex was the name of a product line of National's washing machines. National Sewing Machine Company and Farm Mechanics magazine partnered up, with the magazine offering Vindex toys as incentives to children to sell magazine subscriptions.

In 1953 National merged with the Free Sewing Machine Company but was unable to compete with the imported Japanese sewing machine models and the National Sewing Machine Company closed in 1957

Products

 Sewing machines
 Washing machines
 Bicycles
 Eldredge (automobile)
 Cast-iron scale models
 Cars from Oldsmobile and Pontiac
 Harley-Davidson motorcycles
 A power shovel
 Farm machinery from John Deere, Case, and Van Brunt
 Horse-drawn wagons
 Book-ends
 Table lamps
 Dog door stops
 Banks (dog and owl)
 Cigarette lighters (bulldog)
 Home workshop machinery
 Vises
 Food grinders

See also
 List of sewing machine brands

References

Belvidere, Illinois
Manufacturing companies established in 1879
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1957
Sewing machine brands
Toy companies of the United States
1879 establishments in Illinois
1957 disestablishments in Illinois
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Illinois
Ernst Voss. Ernst Voss (January 12, 1842 in Fockbek – August 1, 1920 in Hamburg) was a German shipbuilder and co-company founder of German company Blohm+Voss.

Life 
Since 1863 Voss studied in Zürich, Switzerland engineering. After his university studies he worked in England for company Gwynne und R.Elder & Co. Together with Hermann Blohm he founded on 5 April 1877 German company Blohm & Voss as a general partnership, to build steel-hulled ships. They established a shipyard on the island of Kuhwerder, near the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

External links

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German company founders
19th-century German businesspeople
20th-century German businesspeople
German industrialists
1842 births
1920 deaths
German naval architects
German shipbuilders
Blohm+Voss