omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Recoil (video game). Recoil is a vehicular combat tank-based Microsoft Windows video game. It involves the player piloting an experimental tank known as the "BFT" (Battle Force Tank) through various missions. There is a heavy influence on collecting various weapons for the BFT throughout the game. It was developed by Zipper Interactive, a subsidiary of its parent publisher, Electronic Arts, and uses the same game engine as MechWarrior 3.

Plot
Tanks patrol desolate city streets. Turrets and missile sites threaten the skies. Robot warriors carrying pulse rifles surround military installations. What's become of Earth? Machines have taken over. Corporate greed and rapid technological advancements have made humans pawns of their own creations. During the first fifteen years of the 21st century, Mega Corp began to dominate computer technology in both peacekeeping and war-fighting applications. As this giant churned out better and better technology for manufacturing and warfare, humans were relegated to service industries or to working as drones on PC terminals. Mega Corp became the largest employer in the United States. By 2010, every computer in America used Mega Corp software and was Internet-connected and monitored through the Mega Corp Network—antitrust suits be damned. Each day, Mega Corp would issue government-endorsed messages through the Network that broadcast pro-machine propaganda. The country was becoming brainwashed. In 2018, the wonders of artificial intelligence turned ugly in the hands of a few disillusioned Mega Corp programmers. Frustrated at being a part of such an ethically challenged corporation, these hacks altered coding in various Mega Corp products—turning certain robot and tank machinery into self-directed, man-killing machines. Today, May 2019, in a war-torn, machine-ravaged world, only a few freethinkers remain. Only a few outsiders have escaped the spell of the Network. Dr. Raines is the leader of a group of rebels called the Alliance. He and a few others have developed a computer program that gives the operator control over an experimental tank. You control this tank and must defeat these robot warriors.

Critical reception

In 1999 when Recoil was published, Zipper Interactive was a very little-known company. Due to the massive number of video games for PC being released at the time, Recoil was hardly seen at all. When it was, however, the game received average reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Next Generation said that the game's selling points "are of the fast and fiery variety, but due to its brevity, this blockbuster may ultimately be little more than a weekend diversion, which prevents us from giving it a higher score."

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1999 video games
Electronic Arts games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Post-apocalyptic video games
Science fiction video games
Tank simulation video games
Vehicular combat games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2019
Video games set in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Zipper Interactive games
Westwood Studios games
Stump (drawing). A stump is a cylindrical drawing tool, usually made of soft paper that is tightly wound into a stick and sanded to a point at both ends. It is used by artists to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media. By its use, gradations and half tones can be produced. 

Stumps are typically made of paper but can also be made of felt or leather. They are sold commercially in a range of sizes suitable for manipulations covering large areas, for operations on a miniature scale, and those in-between. A variant that is not as tightly packed and has a hollow core is called tortillon.

Technique
When blending, a stump may be held at an angle to increase the surface area that contacts the paper. The tip of the stump must be kept clean while blending in light-toned areas of a drawing, so as to not smear darker media from other areas onto it. Eventually the tool will become dull from use; sandpaper pointers are often used to clean and re-sharpen it.

While similar effects can be produced by smudging with one's fingers, this deposits oil from the skin onto the drawing surface, making the surface less receptive to the charcoal or other drawing medium.

Visual arts materials
Anker Engelund. Anker Dolleris Engelund (30 May 1889 – 6 June 1961) was a Danish civil engineer and university professor.

Career
In 1928, he became professor of building statics at the Technical University of Denmark. He became rector of the technical university (1941–1959), during the period of the university's expansion at Østervold. Despite restricted admissions, the university still did not have sufficient space and Engelund was responsible for developing plans for further expansion. This resulted in a decision in 1958 to move the university to Lyngby. Anker Engelunds Vej at  the university Lyngby campus is named after him. Engelund developed the idea of creating the Danish Ingeniørakademi - The Engineering Academy, where there would be less emphasis on the theoretical aspects of engineering, and shorter courses. He was responsible for setting up a Danish inspection body to inspect welds in load-bearing structures and pressure vessels (1940).

Engelund was responsible for the design work on:
King Christian X Bridge (1930)
Storstrøm Bridge (1937)
Vilsund Bridge
Queen Alexandrine Bridge (1943).

External links
Biography and photograph at PAST
Further photograph
 

20th-century Danish engineers
People from Randers
1889 births
1961 deaths
Heterodiamond. Heterodiamond is a superhard material containing boron, carbon, and nitrogen  (BCN). It is formed at high temperatures and high pressures, e.g., by application of an explosive shock wave to a mixture of diamond and cubic boron nitride (c-BN). The heterodiamond is a polycrystalline material coagulated with nano-crystallites and the fine powder is tinged with deep bluish black. The heterodiamond has both the high hardness of diamond and the excellent heat resistance of cubic BN. These characteristic properties are due to the diamond structure combined with the sp3 σ-bonds among carbon and the heteroatoms.

Cubic BC2N can be synthesized from graphite-like BC2N at pressures above 18 GPa and temperatures higher than . The bulk modulus of c-BC2N is 282 GPa which is one of the highest bulk moduli known for any solid, and is exceeded only by the bulk moduli of diamond and c-BN. The hardness of c-BC2N is higher than that of c-BN single crystals.

References

See also
 Boron nitride

Superhard materials
Boron compounds
Carbides
Nitrides
Bimorph. A bimorph is a cantilever used for actuation or sensing which consists of two active layers. It can also have a passive layer between the two active layers. In contrast, a piezoelectric unimorph has only one active (i.e. piezoelectric) layer and one passive (i.e. non-piezoelectric) layer.

Piezoelectric bimorph
The term bimorph is most commonly used with piezoelectric bimorphs. In actuator applications, one active layer contracts and the other expands if voltage is applied, thus the bimorph bends. In sensing applications, bending the bimorph produces voltage which can for example be used to measure displacement or acceleration. This mode can also be used for energy harvesting.

Bimetal bimorph
A bimetal could be regarded as a thermally activated bimorph. The first theory about the bending of thermally activated bimorphs was given by Stoney. Newer developments also enabled electrostatically activated bimorphs for the use in microelectromechanical systems.

See also
 Shape-memory alloy

References 

Piezoelectric materials
Douglas W. Jones. Douglas W. Jones is an American computer scientist at the University of Iowa. His research focuses primarily on computer security, particularly electronic voting.

Jones received a B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1980 respectively.

Jones' involvement with electronic voting research began in 1994, when he was appointed to the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems. He chaired the board from 1999 to 2003, and has testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the United States House Committee on Science and the Federal Election Commission on voting issues.  In 2005 he participated as an election observer for the presidential election in Kazakhstan.  Jones was the technical advisor for HBO's documentary on electronic voting machine issues, "Hacking Democracy", that was released in 2006.  He was a member of the ACCURATE electronic voting project from 2005 to 2011.  On December 11, 2009, the Election Assistance Commission appointed Douglas Jones to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.

Together with Barbara Simons, Jones has published a book on electronic voting entitled Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? Jones's most widely cited work centers on the evaluation of priority queue implementations.  This work has been credited with helping relaunch the empirical study of algorithm performance.  In related work, Jones applied splay trees to data compression and developed algorithms for applying parallel computing to discrete event simulation.  Jones's PhD thesis was in the area of capability-based addressing, and he has occasionally published on other aspects of computer architecture.  He has published work on computer architecture on an occasional basis, such as his proposal for a one-instruction set computer.

References

External links

Douglas Jones' website
NPR Science Friday interview on voting technology
NPR Talk of the Nation interview on voting technology
 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Illinois alumni
American computer scientists
University of Iowa faculty
Unimorph. A unimorph or monomorph is a cantilever that consists of one active layer and one inactive layer.  In the case where active layer is piezoelectric, deformation in that layer may be induced by the application of an electric field. This deformation induces a bending displacement in the cantilever. The inactive layer may be fabricated from a non-piezoelectric material. Expanded URL for Paper referenced is located here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/PAPERS/sitti-icra01.pdf

See also
Bimorph

References 

Piezoelectric materials
Bow Bridge, Cumbria. Bow Bridge is a late medieval multi-span bridge located near Furness Abbey in Cumbria and built in the 1500s. It is made of local red sandstone stone and crosses Mill Beck. It has been a Scheduled monument since 1949. Bow Bridge is a good example of a late medieval multi-span bridge and is a rare example in Cumbria of a bridge of this period. It was constructed by the monks of Furness Abbey to give access to their New Mill. After the Dissolution this mill fell into disuse and the bridge saw little traffic. As such it was never altered greatly and consequently survives well, displaying many of its original features.

References

External links
 English Heritage

Bridges in Cumbria
English Heritage sites in Cumbria
Transport in Cumbria
Buildings and structures in Barrow-in-Furness
Scheduled monuments in Cumbria
BasicX. BasicX is a free programming language designed specifically for NetMedia's BX-24 microcontroller and based on the BASIC programming language. It is used in the design of robotics projects such as the Robodyssey Systems Mouse robot.

Further reading
Odom, Chris D. BasicX and Robotics. Robodyssey Systems LLC,

External links
NetMedia Home Page
BasicX Free Downloads
Sample Code 
, programmed in BasicX
Videos, Sample Code, and Tutorials from the author of BasicX and Robotics

BASIC compilers
Embedded systems
High lead logging. High lead logging is a method of cable logging using a spar, yarder and loader. It was developed by Oscar Wirkkala.  It is accomplished with two lines (cables) and two winches (or cable drums).  The mainline or yarding line extends out from one winch, while a second usually lighter line called the haulback line extends out from the other winch to a 'tail block' or pulley at the tail (back) end of the logging site, and passes through the tail block and connects to the main line.   Butt rigging is installed where the two lines join and the logs are hooked to the butt rigging with chokers.  The procedure is to wind up the main line and the logs are pulled in, wind up the haulback and the butt rigging is pulled out for more logs or another 'turn'.

The "high lead" feature is added by elevating both lines near the winch or 'head' end.  This is accomplished by running the lines through a block (pulley) called the "head block" because it is on the head end of the project.  Early on, it was customary to trim and top a tree making it into a 'spar pole' or 'spar tree' for the purpose of supporting the head blocks but gradually the use of wooden spars gave way over the 20th century to the use of steel spars stood up for the purpose. In any event the spars are supported by a number of guy wires.

The reason for elevating the lines (cables) at the head end is to assist in pulling the logs free of obstructions on the ground.  Also if the trees are being partially lifted as they are transported it is less disruptive to the ground which can be an environmental issue.

High lead is a popular method of logging on the West Coast of America.

First used in 1904, with Lidgerwood winches, and a spar tree.

References

External links
 High-lead Logging on the Olympic Peninsula in the 1920s-30s

Log transport
Dry bag. A dry bag is a type of flexible container which seals in a watertight manner. Dry bags are often used in kayaking, canoeing, rafting, canyoning, and other outdoor activities in which sensitive items would otherwise get wet, as well as extreme sports such as skiing and snowboarding. Dry bags are used to protect electronics from water. They are also used to prevent sleeping bags and spare clothing from getting wet, as in a camping context.

Construction 
They are often a construction of plastic film, plastic-coated fabric, or waterproof fabric ( Nylon, Vinyl, TPU, PVC and Tarpaulin )which is formed to create an impermeable, waterproof bag. Construction techniques include welding,(RF or Radio Frequency Welding) sewing (a seam-tape is used to seal over any needle holes) and gluing.

Roll Top Enclosure 
Most dry bags achieve their waterproof status using a simple roll top closure system or Waterproof zip.

Most commonly the opening to the dry bag is rolled down three times to create the watertight seal and then this is clipped in place, another way to waterproof a dry bag is to use a waterproof zip.

Sizes
A large range of sizes are available, ranging from small bags large enough for a camera or smartphone to mid-size bags large enough for a sleeping bag, to large bags big enough for several sleeping bags and a folded tent.

References

Bags
MUBLCOM. The Multiple Paths, Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications (MUBLCOM) satellite (COSPAR 1999-026B, SATCAT 25736), built for the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was launched in May 1999 by a Pegasus. Its mission was to demonstrate a capability to provide space-based digital voice and data communications to combat forces or commercial users that were previously considered out of range of standard radio communications systems.

On April 15, 2005, the Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) spacecraft collided with the MUBLCOM satellite while attempting to rendezvous with it.

References
 http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/148072main_DART_mishap_overview.pdf
 http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/payload/missions/terriers/ 

Communications satellites
Satellites orbiting Earth
Spacecraft launched in 1999
Satellite collisions
Spacecraft launched by Pegasus rockets
Thomas Kirtley. Thomas Kirtley (20 February 1811 – 16 November 1847) was an English railway engineer, and was the locomotive superintendent of the North Midland Railway and later the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

Biography
He was born at Tanfield, County Durham, the son of a colliery owner, and elder brother of Matthew Kirtley (b. 1813). Thomas began his career as an engine driver on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with his brother. He founded the locomotive builder Thomas Kirtley and Co. of Warrington in 1837, but this company failed in 1841. After briefly working for his brother on the Warrington and Newton Railway he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the North Midland Railway in 1843, but lost his role at the formation of the Midland Railway in May 1844 and served as an inspector. In 1845 he worked for the Trent Valley Railway for Thomas Brassey. In February 1847 he was appointed Locomotive Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway following the dismissal of John Gray, but nine months later he suffered a brain tumor and died.

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English engineers
English railway mechanical engineers
Locomotive builders and designers
Locomotive superintendents
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway people
1811 births
1847 deaths
People from Tanfield, County Durham
Alto Valle thermal power plant. The Alto Valle Thermal Central is a thermal power station located in the city of Neuquén, Argentina (northwestern Patagonia, Comahue region). It employs natural gas and has an installed capacity of 97 MW. Its output is highly variable, depending on the electric market conditions.

Alto Valle is a combined-cycle plant, employing two independent units, each with a gas turbine feeding a 25 MW gas generator and a 15 MW steam generator, plus an open-cycle 17 MW gas turbine. The combined-cycle units use GEC-Alsthom turbines and generators for gas, and CA Parsons & Co. steam turbines and generators for the steam cycle. The open cycle employs a Fiat TG 16 gas turbine and a Siam di Tella - E. Marelli generator.

The power station was started on 24 February 1969. The combined cycles were installed in 1995. Duke Energy, which also owns the Cerros Colorados Hydroelectric Complex, was granted the exploitation concession in 2000.

See also

 Electric power in Argentina

References
  Duke Energy Argentina. Central Térmica Alto Valle.

Natural gas-fired power stations in Argentina
Buildings and structures in Neuquén Province
Duke Energy
Vasant K. Prabhu. Dr. Vasant K. Prabhu is a professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has taught at UTA since 1991. He specializes in teaching and researching digital communication systems.

In 1958, Prabhu received his Bachelor of Science degree from Karnatak University. He also received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Science in 1962, a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, and a Doctor of Science in 1966. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the Alfred Hay Gold medal from the Indian Institute of Science (1961), the Centennial Medal of IEEE (1984), and the Robert Q. Lee Excellence in Teaching award from UTA (1998). He has more than 30 years of experience as member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. In 1986, we was elevated to the grade of IEEE fellow for contribution to interference, noise, and spectral analysis of analog and digital communications systems.

References

External links
 IEEE Fellow Citation
 Homepage @ UTA

Indian emigrants to the United States
American electrical engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Karnatak University alumni
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Fellows of the IEEE
Scientists at Bell Labs
IEEE Centennial Medal laureates
University of Texas at Arlington faculty
Max Holste. Max Holste (13 September 1913 in Nice – 19 August 1998 in Toulon) was a French aeronautical engineer and founder of an aircraft manufacturer company of the same name in Reims, France (now Reims Aviation). His company developed and produced many civil and military piston engine aircraft, including the famous MH-1521 Broussard. He was also one of the lead engineers of the Embraer Bandeirante project.

One of Holste's aircraft early designs, the MH52, fared well in competitions; based on this success, Holste designed a high-wing radial-engined utility aircraft, which became the Broussard. The company had good sales of the Broussard, due to high demand from the French military during the Algerian War; this government demand effectively prevented export of the aircraft.  Holste planned to improve the design, first as a twin-piston, then as a twin-turbine version, but too late: the company had been complacent with initial high demand for the Broussard but sales fell as it became outdated. Holste was ruined, and his factory taken over by his associate and WWII ace Pierre Clostermann with capital from Cessna, and renamed Reims Aviation. The new design eventually became the Nord 262.

Holste left France for Brazil in 1964, having contacts there from Broussard sales visits. Brazil's nascent aviation industry welcomed the designer as a star.  He fulfilled a government requirement as lead designer on the Bandeirante project, which first flew four years later. Unhappy, he formed his own company, and lived in neighbouring countries for the following years.

Ruined again, recently divorced, and not on speaking terms with his children, he returned to France with a South American nurse in 1995, aged 82. He initially settled at Bormes-les-Mimosas, near his first wife Paule, then at Hyères; Paule described him as having 'a difficult character'.  He died in anonymity in 1998 and was buried in Hyères; reportedly no-one attended his burial.  In 2016 a commemorative service was held at Holste's grave in his honour.

References

Bibliography

Polacco, Michel (2017). Une histoire d'amour. Info-Pilote, 736, pp. 64–67

French aerospace engineers
1913 births
1998 deaths
People from Nice