omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Harris J. Ryan. Harris J. Ryan (January 8, 1866 – July 3, 1934) was an American electrical engineer and a professor first at Cornell University and later at Stanford University. Ryan is known for his significant contributions to high voltage power transmission, for which he received the IEEE Edison Medal. Ryan was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1920 and served as president of the AIEE during 1923-1924.

Professor Ryan was a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Psi, and the Irving Literary Society.

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 Biography
 

IEEE Edison Medal recipients
Cornell University alumni
1866 births
1934 deaths
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
American electrical engineers
Cornell University faculty
Stanford University faculty
Max G. Lagally. Max Gunter Lagally (born 23 May 1942, Darmstadt, Germany) is Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Education
He received his BS (physics) 1963, Pennsylvania State University, his MS (physics) 1965, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his Ph.D. (physics) 1968, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Awards and honors
His works were cited more than 11,000 times.
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Elected to Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1999.
Elected a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher - Leopoldina (the German National Academy of Science) in 1999.
Outstanding Science Alumnus Award, Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, American Physical Society, 1995.
Welch Award, AVS, 1991.

References

External links
 Home page at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

21st-century American physicists
1942 births
Living people
Eberly College of Science alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the American Physical Society
EMS Technologies. EMS Technologies, Inc. was an Atlanta-based company with approximately $290 million in annual sales revenue before its 2011 purchase by Honeywell International. EMS-T specialized in wireless, defense, and space communications systems.

History
Founded  in 1968 by Dr. John E. Pippin (1928–2007) as Electromagnetic Sciences Inc., the company was located in the Peachtree Corners Technology Park and employed about 1,100 there and 1,900 internationally. In 2007, EMS had its best financial results of its 40-year history, acquiring two companies, DSpace of Australia, and Akerstroms of Sweden, and earning a listing on Forbes magazine's list of the 200 best small companies. Among its products, it offered electronic counter-countermeasures for communications satellites, and airborne communications, for which it held a 90% stake in military applications, such as Air Force One.

EMS was purchased by Honeywell International in August 2011.

Divisions
The company had four major divisions: EMS Defense & Space, LXE, EMS Aviation and EMS Global Tracking.

EMS Defense & Space
EMS Defense & Space manufactured Kband antenna systems and custom beam management systems for military and commercial applications, including mobile network-centric operations, radar for battlefield visibility and commercial aero connectivity.

EMS Global Tracking
EMS Global Tracking manufactured vehicle and personal tracking systems for transportation, security, maritime and the oil and gas industries.  This division helped companies locate, track and communicate with mobile assets, safeguard their fleets, cargo.

EMS Aviation
EMS Aviation manufactured satellite-based communication systems that enable worldwide high-speed Internet, voice and video capabilities in-flight. This division's systems are used for in-flight communications and entertainment, rugged data storage, airborne connectivity, and data recording and replay hardware and software for the aerospace, defense and transportation industries.

LXE
LXE manufactured rugged vehicle-mounted, handheld and wearable mobile computers. This division's warehouse products helped companies extend corporate networks to mobile workers with hand held scanners and computers.

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Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Electronics companies established in 1968
Companies based in Atlanta
Defunct electronics companies of the United States
1968 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
2011 mergers and acquisitions
Electronics companies disestablished in 2011
2011 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Honeywell
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct computer systems companies
BeRTOS. BeRTOS is a real-time operating system designed for embedded systems.

It is free and open-source software released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2) or later, with a special exception granting proprietary applications the right to keep their source code closed while keeping the base BeRTOS code open.

It has a very modular design, that allows running it on different architectures, ranging from tiny 8-bit microcontrollers such as Atmel AVR microcontrollers up to the 32-bit ARM architecture, and on hosted environments such as Linux and Microsoft Windows. BeRTOS is written in ANSI C, and supported by popular embedded Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and successor Transport Layer Security (TLS) libraries such as wolfSSL.

BeRTOS preemptive multitasking kernel implements many inter-process communication (IPC) primitives, including: signals, semaphores, and messages.

In addition to the kernel, BeRTOS provides a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) that includes many peripheral device drivers (timer, serial, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), motors, liquid-crystal display (LCD), NTC sensors, keyboard, buzzer, memories), algorithms (hash table, cyclic redundancy check (CRC), MD2, entropy pool, run-length encoding (RLE)), communication protocols, and a graphic windowing subsystem for small display devices.

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Real-time operating systems
Embedded operating systems
Free software operating systems
ARM operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Microkernels
IA-32 operating systems
X86-64 operating systems
Vulcanite. Vulcanite is a rare copper telluride mineral. The mineral has a metallic luster, and has a green or bronze-yellow tint. It has a hardness between 1 and 2 on the Mohs scale (between talc and gypsum). Its crystal structure is orthorhombic.

Vulcanite is named for the place where it was discovered in 1961, the Mammoth Good Hope Mine in Vulcan (ghost town and district), Gunnison County, Colorado. Small deposits have also been discovered in Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Norway. It occurs with native tellurium, rickardite, petzite, and sylvanite.

See also
Telluride mineral

References

Telluride minerals
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 59
Minerals described in 1961
KiHa E200. The  is a single-car hybrid diesel multiple unit (DMU) train type operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on the Koumi Line in Japan. Three cars were delivered in April 2007, entering revenue service from 31 July 2007.

The body design is based on the earlier KiHa E130 series DMUs, but with two single doors per side instead of three pairs of doors.

The cars incorporate hybrid diesel/battery technology developed on the earlier "NE Train" experimental hybrid car, and were intended to operate for a period of two years on the Koumi Line to evaluate the viability for full-scale fleet operation.

Two cars are normally used together on  services on the line.

Hybrid operation cycle
On starting from standstill, energy stored in lithium-ion batteries is used to drive the motors, with the engine cut out. The engine then cuts in for further acceleration and running on gradients. When running down gradients, the motor acts as a generator, recharging the batteries. The engine is also used for braking.

Interior
The passenger saloons are arranged with 1+2 abreast transverse seating and longitudinal bench seating at the car ends. Each car includes a wheelchair-compatible toilet.

References

External links

 JR East KiHa E200 Information 
 JR East KiHa E200 (Japan Railfan Magazine) 

East Japan Railway Company
Train-related introductions in 2007
Hybrid multiple units of Japan
Transtage. Transtage, given the United States Air Force designation SSB-10A, was an American upper stage used on Titan III rockets, developed by Martin Marietta and Aerojet.

History

Transtage was developed in anticipation of a requirement to launch military payloads to geostationary orbit; a contract for development of the stage was issued on 20 August 1962. Transtage used a pressure-fed two-chamber configuration, using Aerozine 50 fuel and nitrogen tetroxide as oxidizer; the thrust chambers were gimbaled for steering and each produced  of thrust. The design specification required up to three restarts during the first six hours of a mission.

Forty-seven Titan III launches are known to have used Transtage upper stages; of those, three are known to have suffered launch failures. The first launch, boosted by a Titan IIIA, occurred on 1 September 1964; the Transtage failed to pressurize, resulting in premature engine cutoff, and a failure to reach orbit. The second launch, on 10 December, was successful, and all ensuing launches used the Titan IIIC launch vehicle. The last launch of a Transtage was on 4 September 1989, boosted by a Titan 34D rocket.

See also
Centaur (rocket stage)
Inertial Upper Stage
RM-81 Agena

References

Rocket stages
Titan (rocket family)
Sangachal Terminal. The Sangachal Terminal is an industrial complex consisting of a natural gas processing plant and oil production plant, located on the coast of the Caspian Sea  south of Baku, Azerbaijan.

History
Construction of the terminal began in 1996 with the Early Oil Project, which foresaw the construction of pipelines to Supsa and Novorossiysk. Oil was first exported in October 1997. The terminal has since been expanded to include the ACG Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3 Oil Trains, BTC's main pumping station and the Shah Deniz gas plant. Facilities at the oil production plant include separators, coalescers, three new crude oil storage tanks, Export Pumps, gas turbine power generators and a central control room.

Sangachal Terminal Expansion Program
The Sangachal Terminal Expansion Program (STEP) was started in November 2001. The construction included 15,000 cubic metre of concrete, 1,600 units of steel structures,  of pipe,  of cables. Apart from technological works, civil construction included living accommodations for 550 people, cafeteria, movie theater, soccer field, etc. US$1.2-2 billion was spent for sub-projects realized within the STEP project.

The terminal expansion contract was awarded to Tekfen-Azfen joint venture which employed nearly 4,000 employees for the project, 75% of which were Azerbaijani citizens. Due to finalization of the main part of the project, this number was reduced to 1,720 employees.

Technical features
Sangachal Terminal has a processing capacity of  and  of gas per day (bcfd). The three new crude oil storage tanks added during the STEP have a capacity of  each. The overall storage capacity at the terminal is . As of November 2009, the terminal exports .

The terminal is operated by a BP led consortium and is one of the largest oil and gas facilities in the world. Other partners are from AIOC, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Shah Deniz and South Caucasus Pipeline projects. The terminal receives oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field and natural gas from the Shah Deniz gas field.

The oil is exported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to Turkey's Mediterranean coast and via the Baku-Supsa Pipeline and the Baku-Novorossiysk Pipeline to the Black Sea coast. Sangachal Terminal was mentioned in the United States diplomatic cables leak as one of US "critical foreign dependencies".

See also

Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli
Natural gas processing
Natural gas condensate
Oil production plant

References

External links
Sangachal Terminal, Caspian Energy Centre

BP buildings and structures
Oil terminals
Natural gas terminals
Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan
Natural gas in Azerbaijan
Energy infrastructure in Azerbaijan
Caspian Sea
1997 establishments in Azerbaijan
Philip Vaughan. Philip Vaughan was a Welsh inventor and ironmaster who patented the first design for a ball bearing in 1794.  Vaughan's patent described how iron balls could be placed between the wheel and the axle of a carriage.  The balls let the carriage wheels rotate freely by reducing friction.

Vaughan was granted a patent in 1794 for a ball bearing that sits between the axle and the wheel on a carriage.  His design has the balls running inside deep grooves, and sealed in place with a stopper.

Bearings are used in most rotating machines in the modern world - found throughout the rotating parts in cars, bikes, trains, planes etc.  These modern ball bearings work in much the same way as Vaughan's initial invention.  They make vehicles more efficient by reducing the friction between the moving parts.  Without bearings, our mechanical world would simply not work.

Vaughan was a proprietor and agent of the iron foundry at Carmarthen and Kidwelly.  He owned one house called Green Hall in the Four roads village near Kidwelly, and also used a Villa on Llangunnor hill, built for him by John Morgan Sr.  He married Elizabeth Griffiths in 1793 in St Peter's Church, Carmarthen.

On January 1, 1800, Philip Vaughan signed a copartnership deed with John Morgan Junior, William and Thomas Morris, and William Morgan, the partners all agreeing to bring £12,000 in equal shares of £2,400 each.  On the same day the co-partners started a 21-year lease for the Carmarthen rolling mills from John Morgan Sr.  The lease included Kidwelly Forge, Blackpool Forge, the tin mills and various clauses for the watercourse leading to the Carmarthen works.   Philip Vaughan was elected a burgess of Carmarthen on 2 October 1797.  He died in 1824. His son, of the same name, went on to become a solicitor and mayor in Brecon.

Notes

References

 Carlisle, R. P. Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity, John Wiley & Sons, 2004. 
 Rowland, K. T. Eighteenth Century Inventions, University of Michigan, 1974.

Welsh inventors
18th-century Welsh scientists
18th-century Welsh businesspeople
NATI (motorcycle). NATI () was a manufacturer of motorcycles in the Soviet Union from 1931 -1933. It built the NATI-A-750, designed by Soviet engineer Pyotr Mozharov, prior to the transfer of manufacturing to Podolsk Mechanical Plant.

History 
The date of foundation of the company is considered to be December 31, 1925.

Operation 

 Research and development of promising tractor designs with high technical, economic, ergonomic and environmental characteristics.
 Creation of standard designs of new promising tractor units, assemblies and systems that ensure an increase in the technical level and technical and economic characteristics of machines.
 Industry-wide work on standardization and certification of tractor equipment.

The institute has unique experimental equipment, automated stands, climate chambers, and has a highly qualified team of researchers and testers.

References 
 "Entsiklopediya Mototsiklov. Firmi. Modeli. Konstruktsii.", Za Rulem, Moscow (2003). Энциклопедия Мотоциклов. Фирмы. Модели. Конструкции. - За Рулем - Москва (2003) p. 376-7 

Defunct motorcycle manufacturers of Russia
Manufacturing companies based in Moscow
Motorcycle manufacturers of the Soviet Union
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1931
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1933
1931 establishments in the Soviet Union
InSSIDer. inSSIDer is a Wi-Fi network scanner application for Microsoft Windows and OS X developed by MetaGeek, LLC.  It has received awards such as a 2008 Infoworld Bossie Award for "Best of Open Source Software in Networking", but as of inSSIDer 3, it is no longer open-source.

History
inSSIDer began as a replacement for NetStumbler, a popular Windows Wi-Fi scanner, which had not been actively developed for several years and reputedly did not work with modern 64-bit operating systems or versions of Windows higher than Windows XP. The project was inspired by Charles Putney on The Code Project.

Features
 New in Version 5.0: channel utilization break down to show device (AP and client) airtime utilization; see connected client devices and info about client such as utilization and signal strength
 Gathers information from wireless card and software
 Helps choose the best wireless channel available 
 Wi-Fi network information such as SSID, MAC, vendor, data rate, signal strength, and security
 Graphs signal strength over time
 Shows which Wi-Fi network channels overlap

System requirements

Windows
 Version 5.0: Microsoft Windows 7 or higher
 Version 3.0: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or higher
 Version 2.1: Microsoft Windows XP SP2
 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or higher

OS X
 OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 or higher

References

External links
 
  (Apache 2.0 license)

Wireless networking
MacOS network-related software
MacOS security software
Windows network-related software
Windows security software
Portable boat lift. A portable boat lift is a tool designed specifically to allow one person to transport, set up, and safely separate boats from boat trailers. Portable boat lifts are intended to be used on land, rather than near, in, or on the water. Sometimes referred to as a boat hoist, this equipment holds the waterfcraft out of the water so that maintenance and repairs can be performed.

A portable boat lift is different from a gantry crane, fork lift with elongated forks, or machine, none of which can be easily transported from location to location. A portable boat lift is not a boat lift which is commonly found attached to a dock. Although some devices allow one person to separate a boat from a trailer or lift a boat up and out of the water, they are not by definition portable.

The term "boat lift" originally referred to lift locks. In modern usage the term "boat lift," as opposed to "portable boat lift," usually refers to devices permanently installed at a dock to simply lift a boat above the water, a type of ship lift. It is not specifically designed for separating a boat from a trailer.

Portable boat lifts may differ in design, cost, weight, and function but they are by definition portable.

Prior to the introduction of portable boat lifts, boat lifting work could only be performed at shops or locations that had access to cranes, machines, forklifts, or similar lifting equipment. Portable lifts allow individuals, professional boat and boat trailer mechanics, boat and boat trailer painters or anyone needing to separate a boat from a trailer the ability to perform the work by themselves away from a shop.

Portable boat lifts are relatively new to the boating industry.

References

External links
 Portable
 Remove a Boat from a Trailer with a Portable Boat Lift

Boat lifts
Alexander McKenzie Ross. Alexander McKenzie Ross (25 December 1805 – 8 August 1862) was a British builder and engineer.

Career
In 1823, aged 18, he moved to London where his uncle, Hugh Ross, was working with Hugh McIntosh, a civil engineer and contractor for public works. He remained with McIntosh until 1836. He then joined with Robert Stephenson and worked on numerous challenging projects in the UK, together with Francis Thompson. He was appointed manager for a section of the North Midland Railway in Derbyshire. In 1842 he then worked with Stephenson as resident engineer on the Chester and Holyhead Railway and on completion of this work he became one of the two chief assistants to Stephenson, the other being Frank Foster. He was then involved in the construction of the Conwy Railway Bridge across the River Conwy and the Britannia Bridge across the Menai Straits.

In 1853 Ross was appointed chief engineer for Canada's Grand Trunk Railway. and together with Robert Stephenson he designed the famous Victoria Bridge at Montreal, Quebec, the first bridge to span the St. Lawrence River. The bridge, opened in 1859, remains in use to this day, carrying both road and rail traffic.

Life

He was born in Ulladale, Logie-Easter, Ross & Cromarty in Scotland, the 4th child of John Ross (1765-1812) farmer and wheelwright, and Barbara Boog (1773-1849). Aged 6 his father died, so his mother moved to Dornoch and he was educated at the local public school under John Davidson, a scholar of some note.

His first wife Augusta died on 11 October 1853 in Montreal, Canada.

He married Isabella Kerr (1825-1854) around 1854 in Montreal, Canada, and they had the following children:
Elizabeth Charlotte McKenzie Ross (1855-1935)
Robina Augusta Stephenson Ross (b. 1857-1952)
Clemintina Louisa Ross (1858-1934)
John Ross (b.1860)

Ross died in Chiswick and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

References

1805 births
1862 deaths
British railway civil engineers
Burials at Brompton Cemetery
Yakovlev EG. The Yakovlev EG (Eksperimentalnyi Gelikopter), also commonly known as the Yak-M11FR-1 and Sh (Shootka), was an experimental aircraft with coaxial rotors. The prototype was first flown by V.V. Tezavrovsky in December 1947.

Design and development
The fuselage of the EG was a welded steel tube truss with duralumin skinning on the fwd fuselage back to the rear of the engine compartment. The rear fuselage was fabric covered and supported a tailplane-style unit with twin endplate fins, as well as a tailskid. The Pilot and Passenger sat side by side under a glazed canopy with a car-style door on each side.

The M-11FR engine was mounted behind the gearbox which it drove via a short shaft. The gearbox supported the Rotor pylon
which had two, contra-rotating, co-axial, two-bladed rotors. A fixed tricycle undercarriage mounted on steel tube trusses supported the helicopter on the ground.

Flight testing revealed vibration at forward speeds above  In an effort to reduce vibration the tailplane and fins were removed.

In early 1948 the M-11FR engine was replaced by a  M-12, which proved troublesome so an M-11FR was refitted to complete the flight trials by 8 July 1948.

Specifications

See also

References

Further reading
 

1940s Soviet experimental aircraft
1940s Soviet helicopters
EG
Coaxial rotor helicopters
Aircraft first flown in 1947
Single-engined piston helicopters