omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Molecular Probes. Molecular Probes was a biotechnology company located in Eugene, Oregon specializing in fluorescence. The company was founded in 1975 by Richard and Rosaria Haugland in their kitchen in Minnesota, then moved briefly to Texas and finally to Oregon in the early 1980s. 

In 1989, Molecular Probes moved from Junction City to its current location in Eugene. While in Texas, the Hauglands developed the Texas Red dye, a rhodamine derivative. Other dyes have names that reflect their Oregon heritage, including the Oregon Green and Cascade Blue dyes, while Marina Blue and the Alexa Fluor dyes are named after the Hauglands' children, Marina and Alex.

Invitrogen bought Molecular Probes in 2003 for approximately $325 million in cash. The business subsequently became a part of Life Technologies, through the merger of Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems, and is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, following Thermo Fisher's acquisition of Life Technologies in 2014.

References

External links 
 Molecular Probes Handbook

Biotechnology companies established in 1975
Biotechnology companies of the United States
Companies based in Eugene, Oregon
1975 establishments in Minnesota
Alexander C. Monteith. Alexander Crawford Monteith (April 10, 1902 – September 17, 1979) was a Senior Vice-President of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 
and for more than forty years a leader in the development of electric power systems.

Monteith received his education in electrical engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

He started as a Central Station Engineer and became Senior Vice-President of Westinghouse, 
and President the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), 
and President of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. He was an Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the IEEE Edison Medal in 1962. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965.

External links

References 

1902 births
1979 deaths
Canadian electrical engineers
Businesspeople from Ontario
Fellows of the IEEE
IEEE Edison Medal recipients
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Red Bridge (Tasmania). The Red Bridge in Tasmania crosses the Elizabeth River at Campbell Town. Built in 1838 using penal labour, it is the oldest surviving brick arch bridge in Australia, as well as the oldest bridge anywhere on the National Highway. The bridge contains three arch spans of 7.6 m (25 ft) each and holds two lanes of traffic as well as pedestrian walkways. It lies on the Midland Highway, roughly halfway between Hobart and Launceston, carrying over two million vehicles per year.

It is said to have been designed by James Blackburn, architect to Melbourne and a convict himself. It was constructed of 1,250,000 handmade bricks on dry land, and after its completion the river was diverted to flow under the bridge.

The Red Bridge is registered on the Register of the National Estate since 1978.

The bridge received an Engineering Heritage National Marker from Engineers Australia as part of its Engineering Heritage Recognition Program.

References

External links

 Bridge on the Australian Heritage Database

Road bridges in Tasmania
1838 establishments in Australia
Bridges completed in 1838
Midlands (Tasmania)
Tasmanian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
Tasmanian Heritage Register
Stone arch bridges in Australia
Brick bridges
Recipients of Engineers Australia engineering heritage markers
Thermosphaeroma. Thermosphaeroma is a genus of crustacean in family Sphaeromatidae. They occur exclusively in hot springs of southwestern United States and central Mexico.

Species
The genus contains eight species, most of which are listed on the IUCN Red List (EW: extinct in the wild; CR: critically endangered; EN: endangered; LC; least concern; NE: not evaluated):

References

Sphaeromatidae
Isopod genera
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Zenith STOL CH 801. The Zenith STOL CH 801 is a four-seat sport STOL aircraft developed by Chris Heintz and available in kit form from the Zenith Aircraft Company.

Design and development
The CH 801 is based on the general design and features of the smaller two-place STOL CH 701 model. It offers a useful load of , which is double the 701's . While both aircraft look alike they do not share any common parts.

The STOL CH 801 is made from sheet aluminium and employs a deep wing chord, full-length leading edge slats and trailing edge flaperons to develop high lift at low speed, while maintaining a short wing-span for maximum strength and ground maneuverability.

By the end of 2011, 160 CH 801s had been completed and were flying.

Specifications (CH 801)

References

External links

 Zenith Aircraft

1990s Canadian civil utility aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
CH 801
Zenith aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
STOL aircraft
CAMS 46. 

The CAMS 46 was a flying boat trainer aircraft built in France in the mid-1920s, essentially an updated version of the CAMS 30 that had flown in 1922. While retaining that aircraft's basic form, CAMS offered the French Navy two new versions with aerodynamic refinements over the earlier aircraft: the CAMS 46 E primary trainer, and the CAMS 46 ET intermediate trainer. Only the latter was selected for production and was built in quantity to supply one escadrille at the Naval training station at Hourtin.

Variants
CAMS 42 ET.2(Jane's 1928 has this aircraft designated CAMS 42 ET.2, probably the CAMS 46 mis-identified) Flying boat trainer powered by a /  Hispano-Suiza 8 V-8 engine.
CAMS 46 E A primary trainer flying boat derived from the CAMS 30, powered by a  Hispano-Suiza 8Ab V-8 engine.
CAMS 46 ET The intermediate trainer version of the CAMS 46, powered by a  Hispano-Suiza 8Ab V-8 engine.

Operators

French Navy

Specifications (46 ET)

References

Further reading
 
 

1920s French military trainer aircraft
Flying boats
46
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1926
Frank Morton (chemical engineer). Frank Morton MScTech, PhD, AMCT, DSc, FRIC, (born Sheffield 1906, died 21 January 1999 Rhos-on-Sea) was a noted professor of chemical engineering, instrumental in the creation of UMIST and commemorated by Frank Morton Sports Day and a medal named after him.

Career

Morton left school at 14, but took evening classes and then a first class degree in Chemistry at Manchester Municipal College of Technology where he was also a very active sportsman, followed by a PhD in 1936.  He then worked in Trinidad and was involved in expanding the oil refinery facilities during the Second World War.

In 1946, the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham was formed and he became one of the first lecturers, rising to a Professor in 1951.  In 1956, he was appointed  the first head of the newly formed Department of Chemical Engineering at Manchester College of Science and Technology (later UMIST, now the University of Manchester), UK. In 1966, a new building for the pilot plant of the department was named the Morton Laboratory.

His research publications were in the field of mass transfer in distillation and liquid-liquid contact columns.

In 1961, he instituted a sports competition between the departments of Chemical Engineering at Manchester and Birmingham. This has now expanded to include all chemical engineering departments in the UK and is an annual event, known as the Frank Morton Sports Day.

He was President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1963-1964. His presidential address was entitled "Chemical Engineering Manpower - a critical survey".

In 1964, he took over as Acting Principal of the Manchester College, while the Principal, B. V. Bowden occupied a position in the Wilson government as Minister for Education and Science.  It was at Morton's initiative that the college changed its name to UMIST.

When the UK began to consider using North Sea gas as a domestic fuel, Frank Morton headed a government enquiry into its safety.

In view of his particular interest in and contributions to the education of chemical engineers, in 2001, the Institution of Chemical Engineers awarded the first Morton Medal "for excellence in chemical engineering education".

References

Bibliography
 F. Morton (1982) "A short history of chemical engineering in the North-West of England" in W. M. Furter (ed) (1982) A Century of Chemical Engineering 

1906 births
1999 deaths
British chemical engineers
Engineering academics
Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Academics of the University of Birmingham
People from Sheffield
Scientists from Yorkshire
Jet Fighter (video game). Jet Fighter is an arcade shooter video game released in 1975 by Atari, Inc. It was distributed in Japan by Nakamura Seisakusho (Namco).

Technology
The game is housed in a custom cabinet that includes two 8-way joysticks (one per player) meant to look like older style flight sticks.  Each stick has a fire button mounted on the top.

Gameplay
The players fly in simulated jets around the screen, engaging in a dogfight and attempting to score hits on their opponent within a limited amount of time. When a player is hit, their plane spins around and an explosion is heard. After a few seconds, the plane recovers, pointing at a random direction.

Legacy
 A clone of the game, bearing the same name, was released by Atari subsidiary Kee Games.
 A home console port was included in the Atari 2600 game cartridge Combat.
 Dogfight by Microlab for Apple II.

References

1975 video games
Arcade video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari arcade games
Discrete video arcade games
Video games developed in the United States
List of SNCB/NMBS classes. This is a list of NMBS/SNCB locomotive classes, classes of locomotive operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium:

Multi-system electric locomotives

Single-system electric locomotives

Diesel locomotives 

The class 77 are used both as line engines in up to triple units for freight trains, and as shunting engines (see below). Commutation between operation at 100 km/h maximum (line) and 60 km/h maximum (shunting) can be done while the locomotive is halted.

Diesel shunting locomotives

Electric Multiple Units

Diesel Multiple Units

Steam locomotives 

SNCB Type 1 — 4-6-2
SNCB Type 7 — 4-6-0
SNCB Type 10 – 4-6-2
SNCB Type 12 — 4-4-2
SNCB Type 16 – 2-6-0
SNCB Type 17 - 4-4-0
SNCB Type 25 – 0-6-0
SNCB Type 26 – 2-10-0
SNCB Type 29 – 2-8-0
SNCB Type 36 – 2-10-0
SNCB Type 53 – 0-8-0T
SNCB Type 58 – 0-6-0T
SNCB Type 64 – 4-6-0
SNCB Type 81 – 0-8-0
SNCB Type 93 – 2-6-0T (pr. T9³)
SNCB Type 98 – 0-10-0T
No.2096

See also

History of rail transport in Belgium
Rail transport in Belgium
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/NMBS-SNCB#Current_trains

References

External links

National Railway Company of Belgium locomotives
SNCB multiple units
SNCB
SNCB/NMBS classes
CAMS 51. The CAMS 51 was a transport flying boat built in France in the mid-1920s.  Designed as a private venture by Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine (CAMS), it was a conventional biplane with two radial engines mounted in a tractor-pusher installation in the interplane gap.  One example (the 51C) was sold to Aéropostale, which used it for tests in preparation for transatlantic services.  CAMS also built a militarised version as the 51R3 in the hopes of interesting the French Navy in it as a reconnaissance aircraft, but no order was forthcoming.  A final aircraft was built as a record-breaking machine originally designated 51-3 R that broke the world payload-to-altitude record on 18 August 1927 by lifting 2,000 kg to 4,684 m (15,368 ft).  This aircraft was later used as a pathfinder for French airmail routes to South America.

Operators

Aéropostale

Specifications (51C)

References

 
 aviafrance.com

51
1920s French mailplanes
Flying boats
Biplanes
Twin-engined push-pull aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1926
Lexus 2054. The Lexus 2054 is a concept car designed by Harald Belker for the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Minority Report. The vehicle was shown being built at an automated factory in the film, and later driven by star Tom Cruise in several action sequences.

History
In 2002, Lexus was requested by Steven Spielberg, a Lexus owner himself, to design a vehicle that would fit the requirements of year 2054 for his movie adaptation of the 1956 Philip K. Dick short story "The Minority Report". Designer Harald Belker worked with Calty, the Toyota/Lexus design studio in California. They came up with an advanced vehicle that would run on fuel cells and have many advanced safety features, including a crash-proof structure and biometric security systems. (Lexus's cinematic concept car also appears in the 2005 film The Island, a red one in a stationary scene, a blue one in a driving sequence, and a silver one shown in a parking lot).

A film tie-in site proposed a Lexus future vehicle that would drive itself, take dinner orders verbally, and select music to match occupant moods. The Lexus 2054 later appeared at several auto shows and public events. The site won several advertising awards. Lexus paid $5 million for the rights to market the vehicle and its brand in relation to the film.

Die-cast scale models
The Maisto toy company produced a 1/24 scale replica of the car that was sold exclusively at the Sharper Image to promote the film.

Hot Wheels created their own version of the car called the Phantom Racer, also designed by Belker himself due to licensing issues.

References

External links

 
 Team One "Minority Report" - designer videos (archive)

2054
Minority Report (film)
Cars designed and produced for films
CAMS 53. 

The CAMS 53 was a transport flying boat built in France in the late 1920s.  Building on the experience gained from the unsuccessful CAMS 51, Maurice Hurel designed an aircraft of similar size and capacity for Aéropostale.  The company bought four aircraft straight away for use on its Marseilles-Algiers route, and Air Orient purchased another two.  More CAMS 53s were soon ordered by these operators as well as Air Union, and the aircraft were used to link Marseilles with Ajaccio and Beirut.  When the various French airlines were absorbed into Air France in 1933, some 25 CAMS 53s were still in operation and continued in use until 1935.

Variants
 53 - original production version (seven built)
 53/1 - strengthened hull and increased fuel capacity (12 built, plus all seven original 53s converted)
 53/2 - modified hull shape (six built, one converted from 53 via 53-1)
 53/3 - (redesignated to 56) - version with Gnome et Rhône 9A (licence-built Bristol Jupiter) engines (four built)
 53/4
 53/5
 53R - (originally designated 57) - version with Renault 12Jb liquid-cooled engines (one built)

Operators

Aéropostale
 Air France
Air Orient
Air Union

Specifications (53/1)

References

 
 
 
 

53
1920s French airliners
Flying boats
Biplanes
Twin-engined push-pull aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1928
CAMS 58. 

The CAMS 58 was a transport flying boat built in France in the early 1930s intended as a successor to the highly successful CAMS 53. Compared to the earlier design, the CAMS 58 featured a newly designed Biplane wing cellule and an all-metal hull in place of its predecessor's wooden hull. Work was slow, with three years passing from the start of design work to the prototype's first flight. When the newly formed Air France showed no interest in purchasing the type, CAMS redesigned it to be powered by two pairs of engines in tractor-pusher installations. Again, no interest was forthcoming. The final iteration of the design, reverting to a single pair of more powerful engines and a wooden hull, met with only slightly more success. Air France bought two machines and operated them briefly before declaring them uneconomical and removing them from service.

Variants
 58/0 - prototype with Hispano-Suiza 12Fa engines (one built)
 58/2 - four-engine version with Lorraine 9Na Algol engines (one built)
 58/3 - version with Hispano-Suiza 12Nbr engines (two built)

Specifications (58/3)

References

 
 

58
1930s French airliners
Flying boats
Biplanes
Twin-engined push-pull aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1933
CAMS 55. 

The CAMS 55 was a reconnaissance flying boat built in France in the late 1920s which equipped the French Navy throughout the 1930s.

Design and development
The CAMS 55 design was derived from the unsuccessful CAMS 51 and followed the familiar Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine (CAMS) formula of a conventional biplane flying boat configuration with tandem tractor-pusher engines mounted in the interplane gap. The cockpit was open, and there were open gun positions in the bow and amidships. The bow also incorporated an observation balcony with windows sloped to afford a good downward view.

Operational history
A single prototype was followed by two aircraft to compare different engine installations, one with air-cooled radials and the other a liquid-cooled V engine; in the end, the French Navy ordered some of each. Eventually, 15 escadrilles were equipped with CAMS 55s of various subtypes, replacing the Latham 47 in some units, and in turn being relegated to secondary duties when the Breguet Bizerte became available in 1936. Twenty-nine remained in service at the outbreak of World War II, with the last examples serving with Escadrille 20S in Tahiti until January 1941.

Variants
 55.001 - prototype with Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr engines (one built).
 55J - engine test version with Gnome et Rhône licence-built Bristol Jupiter engines (two built).
 55H - engine test version with Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr engines (two built).
 55/1 - production version with Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr engines (43 built).
 55/2 - production version with Gnome et Rhône licence-built Bristol Jupiter engines (29 built).
 55/3 - version with all-metal hull for French Navy requirement for long-range flying boat.  Prototype destroyed early in test programme (one built).
 55/6 - version with all-metal hull and floats, saving 400 kg (882 lb) of structural weight; deemed too expensive to produce (one built).
 55/10 - version with geared Gnome et Rhône Jupiter engines and increased fuel tankage (32 built, including four tropicalised machines).
 55/11 - long-range patrol version (one built).
 55/14 - version with all-metal hull (one built).

Operators

French Navy

Specifications (55/10)

See also

References

Bibliography

Further reading
 
 

55
1920s French military reconnaissance aircraft
Flying boats
Twin-engined push-pull aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1928
Belgian Railways Class 27. Class 27 were the first of the Belgian Railways' large 1980s family of 144 electric locomotives. The family was made up of Classes 11 (12), 12 (12), 21 (60) and 27 (60). Classes 11, 12 and 21 were nearly twice as powerful as the preceding classes 22, 23 and 25. Class 27 was more than twice as powerful as these 1950s locomotives. The family was heavily influenced by the Class 202 locomotives built in the mid 1970s. They are very reliable because of the trial and error development of their predecessors. This family came into service with M4 and M5 coaching stock and the AM 80 and AM 86 series of EMUs. This generation was a major modernisation even if the older M2 coaching stock remained active for more than a decade. These four sister classes are visually identical except for a few minor details. Class 11's livery was specific to the Benelux service, which they operated for most of their service lives.

Class 27 locomotives are the staple power for SNCB/NMBS. They work all over the 3000 volt electrified lines including the occasional trip through to Luxembourg City. The arrival of Class 13 had little impact on Class 27 at the time as the 13s were occupied with trains of I11 coaching stock and goods trains working on newly electrified sections under 25,000 volts, 50 Hz, where Class 27s could not go. Class 27s were frequently engaged in pulling heavy freights from the Flemish ports to the sorting yard at Montzen, near the German border. They also pulled a number of passenger services including peak hour trains of M5 double deck coaching stock. They have become very active on trains with the newer M6 stock. Locos 2742 to 2760 have been modified with MUX and automatic couplers at one end so they can work in multiple in push-pull trains made up of two Class 27s each with a rake of five M6 coaches running one behind the other. The trains start at separate destinations and join up later to run together as a unit over most of their route. Later they split up and go their separate ways to their final destinations and reverse for the return journey. These locos have been showing frame wear because they were not originally designed for this kind of service so SNCB is monitoring them closely. These MUX locomotives have been replaced on freight duties by Class 13, which have lost most of their passenger duties.

Locomotive 2711 currently holds the world record for the longest passenger train ever pulled by a single locomotive. The record was set on 27 April 1991, when the locomotive pulled 70 carriages from Gent to Oostende.

References

External links 
 HLE 27

3000 V DC locomotives
National Railway Company of Belgium locomotives
Electric locomotives of Belgium
Railway locomotives introduced in 1981
La Brugeoise et Nivelles locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Belgium
Saro Windhover. The Saro A.21 Windhover was a British amphibious aircraft from the  period between World War I and World War II, constructed by Saunders-Roe, or Saro.  It was originally advertised as the A.19 Thermopylae after the famous clipper ship, being an enlarged version of the Saro Cutty Sark.

Development
When tests to improve the power of the Saro A.17 Cutty Sark by adding a third de Havilland Gipsy II engine proved impractical (due to the additional weight on the small airframe), Saro designed a larger aircraft on similar lines that could indeed carry three Gipsy II engines.  Although a technically successful aircraft and nearly viceless in service, it was a type with a very limited market and only two were built.

Production aircraft
 A.21/1, prototype first flown at Cowes 16 October 1930, registered ZK-ABW for delivery to Dominion Airways of New Zealand.  Aircraft sold in September 1931 to Matthews Aviation of Melbourne, Victoria and placed on the Australian register as VH-UPB.  Between January 1933 and February 1934 operated a regular Bass Strait passenger service between Melbourne and Launceston, Tasmania via King Island.  On 13 May 1936 it was damaged beyond repair when blown ashore at King Island while on a charter with a party of game hunters.  The hull was salvaged and ended its days as an instructional airframe in Melbourne during the Second World War before being demolished.
 A.21/2, first and only production example, completed July 1931. After modifications (addition of auxiliary winglet over engines to improve air flow and lift), it was sold to Francis Francis as G-ABJP, who onsold it in September to Gibraltar Airways for the Gibraltar-Tangier route. In July 1932, it was sold to The Hon Mrs Victor Bruce and named City of Portsmouth. The undercarriage was temporarily removed, and during August 1932, it was used in three attempts to break the world flight-refuelled endurance record. That was not achieved, and in May 1935, the aircraft was sold to Jersey Airways, being taken out of service in 1938.

Specifications (A.21/2 Amphibian)

See also

Notes

References

Lewis, Peter. 1970. British Racing and Record-Breaking Aircraft. Putnam  

The Advocate (newspaper, Burnie Tasmania) 22 September 1931, 14 May 1936, 4 June 1936, 3 August 1942.

Flying boats
1930s British airliners
Trimotors
Amphibious aircraft
Windhover
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Sesquiplanes
Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear