omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Genset locomotive. A genset locomotive is a locomotive in which a number of smaller diesel engines are used rather than a single large engine. The term is short for "generator set."

Aspects of gensets 
A genset uses one to three small diesel engines to provide power. An operator is able to activate each engine as needed, with more than one engine gensets activating one for light work and activating more for heavier work, with excess engines turned off when the extra power is not needed.

Advantages 
 More efficient design.
 Longer service life.
 Fuel savings. 
 Ultra-low emissions.
 Improved wheel to rail adhesion capability.
 With multiple engine gensets, should one genset engine fail, the others can keep the train going, albeit at reduced speed.
 Removing a genset engine requires smaller size crane, while a larger crane is required to remove a traditional diesel prime mover.

Disadvantages 
 More complex design.
 Greater capital cost.
 Greater deadweight.
 More engines, and the engines and generators do not use standard parts, reducing reliability.
 Multiple smaller truck type engines which lack the hardiness of a single large railroad type prime mover.
 Engineers do not like them because they are slow to get a cut of cars moving.

Table of produced gensets

See also 

 NRE 3GS21B
 Glossary of North American railway terms: Genset
 Railpower GGS2000D - a one-off.

References

External links 
 What is a Genset locomotive?

Diesel locomotives
ISIS (operating system). ISIS, short for Intel System Implementation Supervisor, was an operating system for early Intel microprocessors like the 8080. It was originally developed by Ken Burgett and Jim Stein under the management of Steve Hanna and Terry Opdendyk for the Intel Microprocessor Development System with two 8" floppy drives, starting in 1975, and later adopted as ISIS-II as the operating system for the PL/M compiler, assembler, link editor, and In-Circuit Emulator (developed by Steve Morse). The ISIS operating system was developed on an early prototype of the MDS 800 computer, the same type of hardware that Gary Kildall used to develop CP/M.

Overview

Communication with the user is terminal-like. Its user interface is somewhat CP/M-like, even from the program interface point of view. For file opening, the program sends the name of file and gets back a handle. Each device has a name, which is entered between a pair of colons (:F0: and :F1: are floppies, :LP: is printer, etc.). Each diskette has one directory and no subdirectories. ISIS-II has been distributed as part of the Intel Microprocessor Development System and includes standard operating system commands (COPY, DELETE, DIR, RENAME, FORMAT) and debugging software (assembler, linker and debugger for external debugging in the developed device). There are two editors, one of which, AEDIT, contains editing macros support. File editing is provided directly on diskette (a .BAK file is always created). The other editor is CREDIT.

ISIS-II needed at least 32 kilobytes of RAM, the 8080/8085 CPU maximum address space was 64 kilobytes. In the MDS-800 and Series-II, the Monitor occupied F800h to FFFFh. Floppy disk format was 8-inch single-sided, 250 KB single-sided, single-density FM, or 500 KB single-sided, double-density MMFM. ISIS-PDS was also software and media incompatible and unique, it came on 720 KB double-sided double-density (DSDD) 5¼-inch floppies with the Intel personal development system (iPDS-100).

The ISIS-IV operating system was another incompatible (even with other Intel development systems) that ran on the iMDX-430 Series-IV Network Development System-II.

Intel ASM80, PLM-80, BASIC-80, COBOL-80, FORTRAN-80 were all available for ISIS-II.
ASM86, ASM48, ASM51 were available as well.

Commands
The following list of commands are supported by the ISIS-II console.

 IDISK
 FORMAT
 OBJHEX
 EDIT
 LIB
 LINK
 LOCATE

See also
 CONV86
 CP/M
 Intel HEX
 Intel Object Module Format (OMF)
 RMX (operating system) or iRMX

References

Further reading
 ISIS-MDS Obsolete ISIS SW, MDS HW Retrieved 2016-11-24
 Intel MDS 80 - Microcomputer Development System

External links
 Intel ISIS Command-Video
 Reverse engineered source
 Additional reverse engineered source
 ISX - An ISIS-II emulator

Intel software
Microcomputer software
Disk operating systems
Floppy disk-based operating systems
Altinger Lenticular 15S. 

The Altinger Lenticular is an Argentine single-seat FAI Standard Class glider designed and built by Theo Altinger.

Design and development
The Lenticular 15S was built with financial assistance from the Argentine Soaring Association for use by flying clubs in Argentina. The glider was built in time to enter the gliding national championship in 1972.

The Lenticular 15S is a cantilever mid-wing monoplane with a glass-fibre semi-monocoque structure and a cantilever T-tail. The pilot has a fully enclosed cockpit with a transparent canopy. The Lanticular 15S has a retractable monowheel landing gear with a semi-recessed tailwheel.

Specifications

See also
 I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú
 I.Ae. 41 Urubú

References

Notes

Bibliography

1970s Argentine sailplanes
Glider aircraft
T-tail aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1972
Mid-wing aircraft
Nihon N-70 Cygnus. 

The Nihon N-70 Cygnus is a 1970s Japanese single-seat powered sailplane designed and built by the College of Science and Technology at the Nihon University.

Design and development
Design of the Cygnus started in April 1970 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, building the aircraft started in June 1970, the Cygnus flew for the first time on 16 December 1971.

The Cygnus is a cantilever low-wing monoplane with a single spar wooden wing with plywood and aircraft fabric covering, the fuselage is an oval-section semi-monocoque structure covered in plywood. It is powered by a  Fuji motor car engine with a two-bladed fixed-pitch wooden propeller. The pilot has an enclosed cockpit with a transparent one-piece canopy. The Cygnus has a forward retracting single main wheel, an auxiliary balance wheel below each wing and a non-retractable tailwheel.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

Motor gliders
1970s Japanese sport aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1971
University of Connecticut School of Engineering. University of Connecticut College of Engineering is a college of engineering located on the main campus of the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. Established in 1916, the college is often placed highly in national rankings, and is recognized as a national leader in closing the gender gap prevalent in undergraduate engineering

Academics 
University of Connecticut College of Engineering include following departments:
 Biomedical Engineering
 Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering 
 Materials Science & Engineering
 Civil & Environmental Engineering
 Electrical & Computer Engineering
 Materials Science & Engineering

Additionally, the college includes the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering and the School of Computing.

Graduate programs 
UConn Engineering offers M.S and Ph.D. degree programs including Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Polymer Science, Master of Engineering (MENG) and graduate-level Advanced Engineering Certificates.

Master of Engineering offerings include 30-credit, 10 course online concentrations with synchronous and asynchronous coursework in:

 Advanced Manufacturing for Energy Systems
 Advanced Systems Engineering
 Civil Engineering
 Clinical Engineering
 Computer Science and Engineering
 Data Science
 Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Environmental Engineering
 General Engineering
 Manufacturing
 Materials Science and Engineering
 MBA/Master of Engineering Dual Degree
 Mechanical Engineering

Advanced Engineering Certificates are 12-credit, 4 course online certificates with synchronous and asynchronous grad-level coursework that can be parlayed into a full Master of Engineering degree. Offerings include:

 Advanced Materials Characterization
 Advanced Systems Engineering
 Bridge Engineering
 Composites Engineering
 Contaminate Site Remediation
 Engineering Data Science
 Power Engineering
 Power Grid Modernization
 Process Engineering

References 

Universities and colleges established in 1916
1916 establishments in Connecticut
Heat-Ray (disambiguation). The Heat-Ray is a fictional weapon used by the Martians in the novel The War of the Worlds.

Heat-Ray may also refer to:

Active Denial System, also known as the "heat ray", a non-lethal directed-energy weapon
Archimedes' heat ray
Godzilla's atomic heat beam
A fictional weapon in the novel Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray

See also
 Thermal radiation, electromagnetic radiation emitted by the thermal motion of particles in matter
Bernard SIMB AB 10. The Bernard SIMB AB 10 was a French single-engine, single-seat, highly streamlined, cantilever, all-metal  low-wing monoplane of advanced design. It first flew in 1924 but was not ordered into production.

Design and development
The Bernard SIMB AB 10 or Bernard SIMB AB 10 C 1 single-seat fighter, which first flew in the summer of 1924, first appeared in public as the SIMB AB-C 1 at the Paris Aero Show of 1922. The AB in this name stood for Adolphe Bernard and C for chasseur () with 1 indicating single-seat. Advanced for its time, it was a streamlined cantilever low-wing monoplane with a closely cowled, liquid-cooled engine.

The AB-C.1 was an all-metal aircraft with straight-edged, slightly tapered wings which had straight wing tips tips rounded at the leading edge. Ailerons extended to the tips.  The tail surfaces had straight swept leading edges but had rounded trailing edges on the control surfaces.  The tailplane was mounted on top of the fuselage and the rudder extended to the bottom of the fuselage, moving between separate elevators.

Its fuselage, rounded in cross-section, tapered to the rear and curved down forwards over the engine to the low-mounted two-blade propeller.  The open cockpit, with a brief, faired headrest, was placed over the middle of the wing.  It had a conventional undercarriage with a pair of single mainwheels and a tailskid, but the mainwheel mounting was unusual, a wide-chord faired inverted T-shaped pylon. The engine was a  Hispano-Suiza V-8, cooled by a pair of Lamblin radiators placed horizontally side by side below the fuselage.

It was at this stage of its development that the AB-C.1 was displayed at the Paris Aero Show in December 1922, though without its rather ugly radiators. Over twenty months passed before the first flight of what became the SIMB AB 10. In this period the wing structure was revised and the span extended by  with more squared-off tips. The fin area was increased with a curved leading edge and the elevator trailing edge straightened. The SIMB AB 10 had its radiators close to each other, vertical and side by side, just ahead of the central undercarriage member. A late alteration braced the faired axle with vertical V-form struts on each side. It finally flew in August 1924, piloted by Florentin Bonnet.

In a biplane age it was judged too radical and expensive, so no production order was awarded.

Specifications (AB 10)

References

Bibliography

External links
Bernard 1 (sic)

1920s French fighter aircraft
AB010
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Transport in Crete. Transport in Crete has undergone significant changes in the past two decades, vastly modernizing the country's infrastructure. Although ferry transport between islands remains the prominent method of transport between the nations islands, improvements to the road infrastructure, rail, urban transport, and airports have all led to a vast improvement in transportation. These upgrades have played a key role in supporting Greece's economy, which in the past decade has come to rely heavily on the construction industry.

Road transport

Highways

Bus transport

Urban bus transport

Intercity and regional bus transport

KTEL is the common name for every company which is responsible for intercity and regional bus transit. Each prefecture, though, has its own regional network of buses, but they are named as "KTEL".

Water transport

Waterways

Ports and harbours
Heraklion, Crete

Airports

total: 6 (2005)
With paved runways: 6
over 3,047 m: 1 
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 
914 to 1,523 m: 1 
under 914 m: 0 (2005)
With unpaved runways: 0
914 to 1,523 m: 0
under 914 m: 0 (2005)
heliports: 0 (2005)

See also
Greece

References

External links
 www.Greek-Motorway.Net
The Hellenic Merchant Maritime Sector: A Historical and Business Overview (Balkanalysis.com)
Jiangya Dam. The Jiangya Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Loushui River, located  northeast of Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province, China. The primary purpose of the multi-purpose dam is flood control but it also generates hydroelectricity, supplies water for irrigation and municipal use and improves navigation.

Background
The dam's power plant has a 300 MW capacity and generates on average 756 GWh annually. It provides for the irrigation of  and water storage for about 50,000 people. The dam also reserves  for flood storage and supports a 20-ton ship lift. Construction on the dam began in 1995, the first generator was operational in 1998 and the project complete in 1999. The dam was constructed with roller-compacted concrete (RCC) and is noteworthy because it was the first dam to use the slope/inclined laying process as opposed to horizontal. This technique was used from the dam's midsection upward and reduced both the cost and time of construction. The dam was constructed at a cost of about US$400 million, of which $97 million was provided by the World Bank.

Design
The dam is a  tall and  long concrete gravity dam with a structural volume of . The base of the dam is  wide and the crest is at an elevation of  while the reservoir has a normal elevation of . The dam sits at the head of a  catchment area and creates a reservoir with a capacity of . The dam's spillway is controlled by four gates and at the base of the chutes, flip buckets dissipate the water's energy. Within the three center spillway piers are three intermediate outlets. These outlets and the spillway can discharge up to . The dam's power house is located underground on the dam's right bank and contains three 100 MW Francis turbine-generators. The dam's 20-ton ship lift is located on the left bank and is  long. The irrigation intake is located on the left bank of the reservoir.

VLF-transmitter
Over the eastern part of Jiangya reservoir at  29°35'21"N   110°44'23"E multiple wires of a VLF-transmitter used for transmitting orders to submarines are spun. The facility is similar to Jim Creek Naval Radio Station, but much larger,

See also

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

References

Dams in China
Hydroelectric power stations in Hunan
Gravity dams
Dams completed in 1999
Roller-compacted concrete dams
Underground power stations
1999 establishments in China
Weybridge Man Powered Aircraft. 

The Weybridge Man Powered Aircraft (also known as Dumbo and later Mercury) is a British single-seat man-powered aircraft built and flown by members of the Weybridge Man Powered Aircraft Group.

Development
The Weybridge Man Powered Aircraft Group was formed in late 1967 with members drawn from the British Aircraft Corporation factory and the local chapter of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Construction started in 1968 and the aircraft was assembled at Wisley and flown for the first time from Weybridge on 18 September 1971. The Weybridge MPA (which was named Dumbo) was flown by Christopher Lovell for a distance of 46 metres with a height reached of 3 ft (0.9m). Only two flights were made at Weybridge and the aircraft was passed to another group at RAF Cranwell who renamed it Mercury.

Design
The aircraft is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a fuselage made from aluminium alloy tubing with balsa frames and covered with Melinex. The wing has a single warren-girder main spar of aluminium alloy tubing with balsa ribs and, like the fuselage, covered with Melinex. The landing gear was a non-retractable tandem arrangement using bicycle wheels. The power is generated by the pilot in an enclosed cockpit using bicycle pedals driving a two-bladed balsa pusher propeller.

Specifications

See also

External links
British Pathé - partial success in man-powered flight - video of the Weybridge MPA

References

Notes

Bibliography

Aircraft first flown in 1971
1970s British experimental aircraft
Human-powered aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed bicycle landing gear
La Belle Iron Works. La Belle Iron Works, also known as La Belle Cut Nail Works, was a historic factory complex and national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district included four contributing buildings; three Italianate style brick buildings dated to the founding of the company in 1852, and a tin plate mill built 1894–1897.  After 1902, the buildings were combined under a single roof, although the truss systems date to different periods achieving the configuration visible today.  When listed in 1997, it was known as the "La Belle Cut Nail Plant, The Largest in the World, Wheeling Corrugating Company, A Division of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation." The cut nail machinery still in use by La Belle dated to 1852 and the 1860s. The machinery at La Belle along with the different processes were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey team during the summer of 1990.

The plant stopped operation in 2010, and was demolished in 2017.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

References

External links

LaBelle Iron Works Corliss Engine January 27, 2010, YouTube video
La Belle Iron Works history, from the Wheeling Register, Sunday, Feb. 5, 1922, sec. 4, p. 1
e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia, La Belle Iron Works article, October 7, 2010

Buildings and structures in Wheeling, West Virginia
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Historic districts in Wheeling, West Virginia
Italianate architecture in West Virginia
Industrial buildings completed in 1852
Historic American Engineering Record in West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Wheeling, West Virginia
Fastening tool manufacturers
Ironworks and steel mills in the United States
1852 establishments in Virginia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Demolished buildings and structures in West Virginia
Buildings and structures demolished in 2017
Demolished but still listed on the National Register of Historic Places
HPA Toucan. 

The HPA Toucan is a British two-seat human-powered aircraft built and flown by members of the Hertfordshire Pedal Aeronauts and was the first two-person human-powered aircraft to fly.

Development
The Hertfordshire Pedal Aeronauts was formed in 1965, mainly from the staff of Handley Page Limited, to design and build a human-powered aircraft and to compete for the Kremer Prize. The aircraft, unique in being powered by two persons, was designed by Martyn Pressnell. Pressnell was at the time a stress engineer with Handley Page. Partly funded by a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society construction began in 1967 and was completed in 1972. Following taxying trials at Radlett Aerodrome on 16 June 1972 when brief hops were made, the aircraft made its first flight on 23 December 1972. Flown by Bryan Bowen with Derek May as crewman the longest flight was , the Toucan flew again on 3 July 1973 for  and achieved a height of .

Design
The Toucan is a mid-wing cantilever monoplane with the fuselage a braced structure of spruce and  balsa and covered with Melinex. The wing spars had spruce booms and plywood edges and the ribs were made from balsa and like the fuselage it was covered with Melenix. The landing gear was a non-retractable the main wheel and tailwheel in tandem, it also had small outrigger wheels under the wings. The two crew sit in tandem under a transparent removable cover, the power is generated by the two crew using bicycle pedals which were connected by chains to drive the main wheel and via a shaft a two-bladed balsa pusher propeller mounted at the rear of the tail unit.

Specifications

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

1970s British experimental aircraft
Human-powered aircraft
Pusher aircraft
Twin-engined single-prop pusher aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1972
Mid-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed bicycle landing gear
Bishop RB-1 Ray's Rebel. 

The RB-1 Ray's Rebel is an American two-seat light sporting aircraft designed and built by Ray Bishop of Norton, Ohio.

Design and development
The Ray's Rebel is a braced low-wing monoplane with a welded steel-tube fuselage covered in fabric. The wing is an all-wood construction covered with Ceconite, it has endplates on the wing tips and frise-type ailerons but has no flaps or trim tabs. Ray's Rebel is powered by a  Lycoming O-290-G air-cooled piston engine driving a two-bladed fixed pitch tractor propeller. The landing gear is a fixed tailwheel type with a glassfibre fairing over the wheel. The enclosed cockpit has two side-by-side configuration seats under a rearward-sliding canopy. Bishop started designing the aircraft in October 1954 and started construction in February 1955, fifteen years later it was completed and now registered N971RB. Roy's Rebel first flew on 28 March 1970.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

1970s United States civil utility aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
RB-1
Aircraft first flown in 1970
Sheffield Skeeter X-1. 

The Sheffield Skeeter X-1 is an American single-seat lightweight homebuilt aircraft designed and built by Kenneth Sheffield of Littleton, Colorado. Designed for amateur construction only the prototype was built.

Design and development
Kenneth Sheffield set out to design a low-cost, easy-to-build aircraft. He included folding wings, a simple structure and powered it with a Volkswagen air-cooled engine. Design was started in 1966 and by April 1970 the Skeeter X-1, registered N117 had flown. The Skeeter X-1 is a parasol strut-braced monoplane with a welded steel fuselage. The fuselage is covered in wood and metal in the cockpit area but the aft-structure is uncovered and the pilot sits in an open cockpit.  The two-spar wings fold for transportation, and they have ailerons, but no trim tabs or flaps. The wooden tail is strut and wire braced and fabric covered, and the landing gear is a fixed tailwheel type with a steerable tailwheel. The Skeeter X-1 was designed to me powered by any converted Volkswagen engine from , the prototype had a  Volkswagen converted motor-car engine driving a two-bladed fixed pitch tractor propeller designed by Sheffield.

The Skeeter X-1 was registered by the Federal Aviation Administration in the experimental homebuilt category and the company planned to sell plans and finished propellers to customers but only the prototype appears to have been built.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

1970s United States civil utility aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1970