omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Suofengying Dam. The Suofengying Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Wu River,  northwest of Guiyang in Guizhou Province, China. It is located  downstream of the Dongfeng Dam and  upstream of the Wujiangdu Dam. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports a 600 MW power station. Construction on the dam began on 26 July 2002 and on December 18 of that year, the river was diverted. Pouring of roller-compacted concrete into the dam's body began on 14 January 2004 and in June, the dam began to impound its reservoir. On 18 August, the first generator was operational and the last two in 2005. The  tall dam creates a reservoir with a capacity of . The dam's power station is located on its right bank and contains three 200 MW Francis turbine-generators.

See also

List of dams and reservoirs in China
List of major power stations in Guizhou

References

Dams in China
Hydroelectric power stations in Guizhou
Gravity dams
Dams completed in 2006
Dams on the Wu River
Energy infrastructure completed in 2006
Roller-compacted concrete dams
Robot economics. Robot economics is the study of the market for robots. Robot markets function through the interaction of robot makers and robot users. As (in part) a factor of production, robots are complements and/or substitutes for other factors, such as labor and (non-robot) capital goods. Another part of robot economics considers the effects of the introduction of robots on the markets for those other factors and on the products that robots help produce.

Robots are spreading throughout the economy, in fields such as agriculture, medicine and retail.

Markets

Agriculture 

The use of robots in agriculture began with automated milking systems. More recently, agricultural robots have begun to be used in harvesting, pruning, seeding, spraying and materials handling.

Medicine 

Medical robots can be categorized in five segments: surgery, rehabilitation, non-invasive radiosurgery, hospital and pharmacy and others. Robot-assisted surgery can improve accuracy. However, medical robots can increase costs.

The market was valued at $1,781 million in 2013. Hospital and pharmacy robots segment grew fastest.

Retail 
Robots can be used in retail for helping customers find items, keep track of product inventory on shelves, and even interact with customers.

Manufacturers 

Major participants operating in the global robotic market include Samsung Electronics, iRobot, Toyota Motor Corporation, AB Electrolux, Hanool Robotics, Fujitsu Frontech Limited, LG Electronics, Fujitsu, Sony Corporation, Yujin Robot and GeckoSystems.

References

External links 

  
  Economic of Collaborative Robotics
 A Roadmap for US Robotics From Internet to Robotics
 
 
 

Technological change
Robotics
DockNET. DockNET is an intelligent control system for cargo handling developed by Portsystem in Sweden.

The control system was created for being able to analyze, communicate, supervise, direct, record and to document everything that happens in and around a loading door hole in a modern cargo terminal. Cargo terminals often suffer damage to loading houses and vehicles incurred in connection with drive into and away from the loading house. This is usually not just mistake out of the driver, but lack of communication between driver and loading dock. DockNET solves this lack of communication and secures while running the work environment and cargo handling. The result is increased efficiency where technology makes everything measurable around the loading space.

See also 
 Logistics

References

External links 
 http://www.metal-supply.se/article/view/48802/storre_logistikforetag_valjer_docknet_enterprise_till_anlaggningen_i_jonkoping
 http://www.beijer.se/web/web_aut_se.nsf/wwwpages/8A3FBB6BCAC77651C12578B5002BD394/$File/Experience_2001-1_SE_web.pdf

Control engineering
Unbong Dam. The Unbong Dam, or Yunfeng Dam, is a concrete gravity dam on the Yalu River which borders China and North Korea. It is located  northeast of Ji'an in Jilin Province, China and Chasŏng in Chagang Province, North Korea. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports a 400 MW power station. Construction of the dam had initially began in August 1942 but was halted in 1945 after the surrender of Japan ending World War II. In October 1959, construction on the dam recommenced and in September 1965, the first of the four 100 MW Francis turbine-generators was operational. The last generator was operational on 4 April 1967. The  tall dam creates a reservoir with a storage capacity of .  The dam's spillway is an overflow type with 21 floodgates and has a maximum discharge of . The dam is located before a bend in the river and its power station is located on the other side of a ridge that meets the dam's right abutment. Water is delivered to the power station via two tunnels,  and  long. Generators 1 and 3 deliver power to China while 2 and 4 deliver to North Korea.

See also

List of dams and reservoirs in China
List of major power stations in Jilin

References

Dams in China
Hydroelectric power stations in Jilin
Gravity dams
Dams in North Korea
Hydroelectric power stations in North Korea
China–North Korea relations
Dams completed in 1965
Dams on the Yalu River
1965 establishments in China
1965 establishments in North Korea
Buildings and structures in Chagang Province
20th-century architecture in North Korea
Ali's Pond Local Nature Reserve. Ali's Pond is a   Local Nature Reserve in Sonning in Berkshire. It is owned by Sonning Parish Council and managed by the Friends of Ali's Pond.

The nature reserve adjoins King George's Field in Sonning. It was established in 1997 by professional ecologist and local resident Alastair Driver (hence the site's name), who acts as the voluntary warden. The area is laid out with paths and large ponds.

Following the discovery of breeding Great Crested Newts during the Millennium Festival pond-dipping sessions in the summer of 2000, an application was made to English Nature for local nature reserve status for the site. The first site management plan was produced in September 2000 and the site was officially declared Ali's Pond LNR in April 2001, making Sonning Parish Council only the third parish council in the country to declare an LNR.

The nature area has been created and managed for the use and enjoyment of all sections of the local community, as well as for visitors to the village. Key England Biodiversity Strategy priority species which have colonized the site so far include Great-crested Newt, Stag Beetle, Song Thrush and Pipistrelle Bat. In total, 19 species of dragonfly, 23 species of butterfly, over 300 species of larger moth and 45 species of aquatic/wetland plants have been recorded at the site since its establishment in 1997.

The field immediately to the south and west of Ali's Pond LNR was purchased by Reading Blue Coat School in 2006. Then, in 2007, as a condition of the planning application to change the land use designation of that field from agriculture to sport, another nature area was created within it to provide additional habitat for Great Crested Newts. This area is known as Sonning Field and contains another amphibian breeding pond, log and brushwood piles and new hedgerows with a wide variety of native trees and shrubs. Both fields are rich in wildflowers having had their nutrient levels reduced for many years through annual hay cutting and removal of arisings, supplemented with the sowing of native loamy and sandy soil wildflower mixes in 2020. A permissive path enables easy access through from Ali's Pond and across Sonning Field through to Sonning Lane.

In addition to the wholly informal use of the site, a Friends of Ali's Pond (FAP) Group has been set up which now has over 70 members, most of whom live within a couple of miles of the site. Members of this group participate in volunteer management activities such as tree planting, pond clearance and hay-making and attend moth and amphibian surveys under the guidance of the voluntary warden Alastair Driver. These activities have not been confined solely to the reserve — conservation work has also been carried out in other nearby locations to provide complementary habitat and amenity to that found in the reserve.

The Friends of Ali's Pond received the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management 2016 Best Practice Award for Practical Nature Conservation - Small Scale.

See also 
 List of local nature reserves in England

References 

Sonning
Local Nature Reserves in Berkshire
Advanced System Optimizer. Advanced System Optimizer (formerly Advanced Vista Optimizer) is utility software for Microsoft Windows developed by Systweak (founded in 1999 by Shrishail Rana), intended to improve computer performance and speed.

Features 

Advanced System Optimizer's utilities include system cleaners, memory optimizers, junk data cleaners, privacy protectors, startup managers, security tools, and other maintenance tools. The software also includes utilities to repair missing or broken DLLs and erase files, and it features a recommendation section that displays problems and actions that can improve PC performance.

The "single click care" option scans all areas of the computer for optimization. The optimization tab is used to free up memory of the computer. The startup manager is used to manage programs that load at the computer's startup.

The registry cleaner has 12 categories of registry errors to detect and delete registry errors.

The 2008 version had over 25 tools. It can be scheduled to run optimization without for user intervention.

Reception 

In a review for PC World, Preston Gralla praised the quality of the software suite's design, stating the tools perform as advertised. He noted the product's price as a drawback.

References 

7. Review: Advanced System Optimizer

External links 
 

Computer system optimization software
Shareware
Utilities for Windows
Bernard SIMB AB 12. The Bernard SIMB AB 12 was a French single engine, single-seat monoplane fighter aircraft built in the 1920s. Though advanced for its time, it failed to gain a production order and only one was built.

Design and development

Like the Bernard SIMB AB 10, the AB 12 was an all-metal, single-seat, monoplane fighter with a low cantilever wing.  It differed from the AB10 in having a radial engine, a more conventional undercarriage and four machine guns.  The wing plans of both aircraft were similar, straight tapered with squared tips, though the AB 12 had a span  greater.  The empennage of both designs was also similar: the AB 12 had a tailplane with swept leading edges and separate elevators mounted on top of the fuselage and a wide chord, almost straight edged fin, though its rudder, moving between the elevators, ended on the upper fuselage line.  The fuselage had an oval cross section with the open cockpit over the wing, a short, faired headrest behind it.

The AB 12 was powered by a  Gnome-Rhône 9Ab radial, a licence-built Bristol Jupiter. By the standards of the day this was quite well cowled-in for a radial but the cylinder heads protruded for cooling.  The details of the gun mounting are not clear, but images show at least one on the starboard side firing through a slot in the nose just above mid-height, the opening extending between two cylinders.  The undercarriage of the AB 12 was quite conventional and very different from that of the AB 10.  It had a pair of single mainwheels mounted on a single, faired axle, with V-form legs attached to the lower fuselage.  The tricycle gear was completed by a tailskid.

Overall, the AB 12 was 40% more powerful but less aerodynamically clean and 7% heavier than the AB 10, so its maximum speed was only 6% higher.  Monoplanes in a biplane era, neither design received a production order and only one of each was built.

Specifications

References

Bibliography

External links

Bernard 12 (Sic)

1920s French fighter aircraft
AB012
ProFe D-10 Tukan. The ProFe D-10 Tukan () is a Czech high-wing, strut-braced, T-tailed, two-seat motor glider that was designed and produced by ProFe and made available in kit form for amateur construction.

Design and development
The D-10 was designed as a self-launching sailplane. The engine is a Rotax 447 of , mounted in tractor configuration on a retractable arm behind the cockpit. The engine can be retracted in 15 seconds.

The D-10 is predominantly constructed from fibreglass and wood. The cabin is enclosed under a bubble canopy. The conventional landing gear uses two side-by-side, non-retractable mainwheels under the cockpit floor set closely together. The  span wing is supported by a single lift strut and jury struts on each side and employs a Wortmann FX 63-137 airfoil.

Specifications (D-10 Tukan)

See also

References

External links

Photo of a D-10 in flight

1990s Czech and Czechoslovak sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Motor gliders
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Tukan
T-tail aircraft
Tachikawa Ki-92. The Tachikawa Ki-92 was an experimental Japanese heavy transport aircraft of World War II.
It was a low-wing monoplane with a pressurized fuselage, twin piston engines and a tailwheel undercarriage.

Development
In March 1942 the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service chose Tachikawa Aircraft Company to design and build a new heavy twin engine transport aircraft with a focus on increased range, power and speed to carry light tanks, field artillery and troops.

Shinjiro Shinagawa was in charge of the development and began work in March 1943 and had the first prototype completed by September 1944. Like Tachikawa's Ki-77 the aircraft featured a laminar flow airfoil. The Ki-92 also had a sealed cabin with double glazed windows seating 34 troops in 4 rows (including two emergency seats) to reduce the need for oxygen, and forced draught cooling in low drag engine nacelles. Due to various repairs and modifications, the first flight did not occur until April 1945. The test flight recorded a maximum speed of 426 km/h, but the Ki-92 was found to be dangerous to fly with the cargo door open at these speeds even though fuselage rigidity was not a problem.

Due to the deteriorating war situation and resulting reduction in priority for transport aircraft, of the three to 10 prototypes planned for, only one prototype and no production aircraft were built before the war ended. Orders included 114 constructed extensively from wood to conserve aluminium, though the Ki-92 prototype already featured a tail made from wood. Tachikawa had planned for their potential use as commercial transports during the design phase.

Allied intelligence organizations such as ATAIU SEA were unaware of the existence of the Ki-92 and did not assign a code name to it.

Operators

Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (Evaluation only)

Specifications (Tachikawa Ki-92)

See also

References

Citations

Bibliography

 (Japanese)

 (Czech)

1940s Japanese experimental aircraft
Ki-92
Low-wing aircraft
1940s Japanese military transport aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1945
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company. Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company  was an American aircraft manufacturer of the 1920s and 1930s

History
In 1921, the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company was founded by Russell B. (Penny) Nicholas and Howard Beazley. Nicholas started Central Aviation Company reselling surplus propellers, and in 1924 renamed the company to reflect the addition of Howard Beazley as partner. Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company started as a reseller of surplus Curtiss OX-5 parts through mail-order catalogs, expanding into a wide variety of airplane construction materials. Nicholas-Beazley resold 57 Armstrong-Siddeley Genet engines originally sold by Fairchild, becoming the US distributor. Surplus Standard J aircraft were modified and marketed by the company.

In 1927, Walter Barling was hired to engineer the first in-house aircraft, the Barling NB-3. The aircraft was advertised as being able to right itself from any position with the hands off the controls, and spin-proof. In 1929, Tom Kirkup was hired to design the NB-8G. 57 units were completed and sold. At its peak, the company produced as many as one aircraft per day. In 1937, production of aircraft ceased, after the Great Depression.

The Nicholas-Beazley Aircraft Company Museum resides at Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport in Marshall, Missouri, featuring a NB-3 on display.

Aircraft

References

External links
A brief history of Nicholas-Beazley Aircraft Manufacturing Company

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Nicholas-Beazley Pobjoy Special. The Nicholas-Beazley Pobjoy Special  aka the Nicholas-Beazley Phantom I, aka the Wittman Phantom, aka the Flagg Phantom, aka the Reaver Special was a world record holding air racer of the 1930s.

Development
The Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company had imported a Pobjoy Airmotors engine with a gear reduction unit for use in its new design the Nicholas-Beazley NB-3. Designer Robert T. Jones computed the weight and balance for the setup and proposed a new design as an air-racer. Claude Flagg and H. F. Landis built the aircraft in their spare time and patented the wing design.

Design
The fuselage is welded steel with fabric covering. The wings used an early application of lightweight aluminum construction with U-shaped cantilever spars with wire bracing and fabric covering. The aircraft used wheels with small tires and without brakes. The cockpit was open and the engine was fully cowled.

In 1932 the Pobjoy P engine was replaced with a Pobjoy R of 75 hp. The cockpit was also enclosed. In 1933 Wittman lengthened the fuselage by 21 inches, removed the engine cowling and modified the rudder. In 1946 The engine was replaced with a Continental C-85.

Operational history
In 1932 Ownership passed to Air Racer Steve Wittman. An Air Commerce inspector fronted the money, and had Wittman race the aircraft to avoid a conflict of interest. The Pobjoy Special is the only racer Wittman raced that he did not build or design himself. In 1937 the Pobjoy Special is flipped on its back. It was rebuilt sold, and stored until the end of World War II. John Reaver entered the aircraft as the Reaver Special in the new Goodyear Formula One races.

1930 National Air Races - Registered as R1W, pilot Danny Fowlie reached 115 mph placing third in class with a mismatched prop.
1933 Chicago International Air Races - Pilot Steve Wittman wins all races in the 200ci class with a maximum speed of 120 mph.
1934 New Orleans - Wittman wins the 100 km world speed record of 137.513 mph for aircraft less than 440 pounds.
1934 Cleveland Air Races - Wittman wins all races in the 200ci class with a speed of 129.440 mph.
1935 Cleveland Air Races - New owner Percy V. Chaffee wins all races in 200ci class.
In 1936 the 200ci class is eliminated, making the Pobjoy Special obsolete for racing.
1937 St. Louis - Last race of the Pobjoy Special.

Variants
 In 1998 former owner, Dick Sampson, commissioned an airworthy replica of the Pobjoy Special to be built by Bill Turner of Repeat Aviation. It is configured with the Wittman modifications, a cowled Pobjoy engine, and wooden wings. The aircraft is on display at the EAA Airventure Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Specifications (Pobjoy Special)

Bibliography
 Ogden, Bob. Aviation Museums and Collections of North America. 2007. Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. .

References

1930s United States aircraft
Racing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Air Est Goeland. The Air Est Goeland (), sometimes called the Clavé Goéland, after the designer, is a French parasol-wing, T-tailed, single-seat motor glider that was designed by Robert Clavé and produced by Air Est Services of Marly, Moselle in kit form for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aim of the Goeland was to provide a viable motor glider design based on wings taken from a Scheibe Spatz glider. The kit was supplied with two fuselage halves and the tail parts only, leaving it up to the builder to secure the Spatz wings and engine to finish the aircraft.

The finished aircraft is of mixed construction with a fibreglass fuselage and wood and doped aircraft fabric wings. The  span wings are mounted on a short pylon above the fuselage, although other sailplane wings can be employed in place of the Spatz wings. The specified König SC 430  radial engine is mounted in pusher configuration behind the wing and above the tail boom, although other similar engines can be used. The aircraft features tricycle landing gear and a cockpit bubble canopy.

In 1998 the basic kit was US$4400 and included just the fuselage halves and tail. A finished fuselage was US$8400 and plans were advertised at US$200. Building time was estimated at 300 hours.

Specifications (Goeland)

See also

References

External links
Photo of a Goeland

1980s French sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Motor gliders
T-tail aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1987
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Gerhardt Cycleplane. The Gerhardt Cycleplane has been called the world's first successful human-powered aircraft. It was designed by Dr. William Frederick Gerhardt (January 31, 1896 – March 15, 1984), and assembled by the staff of the Flight Test Section at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio. It was flown in 1923.

See also

References

External links
 Newsreel footage at British Pathe

1920s United States experimental aircraft
Cycleplane
History of Dayton, Ohio
Human-powered aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Multiplane aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
HMAS Bass. HMAS Bass (GPV 902) was an Explorer class general-purpose vessel of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), serving in a range of capacities from 1960 until 1994.

Design and construction

The Explorer class was a two-ship class of general-purpose vessels built for the RAN. The ships had a displacement of 207 tons at standard load and 260 tons at full load. Bass was  in length overall, had a beam of , and a draught of . Propulsion machinery consisted of GM diesels, which supplied  to the two propeller screws, and allowed the vessel to reach . The ship's company consisted of 14 personnel. The ship's armament of light weapons (two .303 Bren guns) were only fitted as needed.

Bass was laid down by Walkers Limited of Maryborough, Queensland in May 1959. She was commissioned into the RAN on 15 November 1960.

Operational history
From 1963, Bass operated with the coastwatchers organisation.

By July 1967, the ship had been assigned to Hobart for hydrographic survey duties, and for service as a training vessel to the Royal Australian Navy Reserve Port Division based there. She continued in this role until June 1982, when she was replaced by the patrol boat . In July, Bass relocated to , to provide navigational training to personnel at that base.

On 17 December, Bass was formally decommissioned, but remained in service as Waterhens training vessel. In October 1985, Bass was reassigned to the Darwin Port Division of the Royal Australian Navy Reserve.

In 1994, Bass was paid off and sold. The vessel entered civilian service as MV Bass.

Civilian owners have included Sydney Harbour and foreshore identities, John Giddens, Jeff Devine and Danny Black.

References
Citations

Bibliography

External links
MV Bass - Website following the restoration of the vessel

1960 ships
Explorer-class general-purpose vessels
Ships built in Queensland