omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Daybreak Zero. Daybreak Zero is the title of a science fiction novel by John Barnes. It is the second of three books comprising the Daybreak series.

Plot
In the near future, a variety of groups with diverse aims, but an overlapping desire to end modern technological society (the "Big System") create a nanotech plague ("Daybreak") which both destroys rubber and plastics and eats away any metal conductors carrying electricity.  An open question in the book is whether these groups, and their shared motivation, are coordinated by some conscious actor, or whether they are an emergent property / meme that attained a critical mass.

Reception
In a review of the audiobook, which was read by Susan Ericksen, AudioFile stated that her "attempts to capture atmosphere do not quite work" and that she "makes sense of the narrative but delivers it with a brittle intensity—even during the more personal and intimate moments." Kirkus Reviews wrote: "A stunning premise that would have benefited from a lighter approach, less baggage and more focus."

References

External links

2011 American novels
American science fiction novels
Novels by John Barnes

Ace Books books
Mullard Circuits for Audio Amplifiers. Mullard Circuits for Audio Amplifiers is a famous book by the Technical Services Department of Mullard Ltd, a British valve manufacturing company. First published in 1959 and then reprinted several times it contained a number of designs by Mullard engineers for high quality audio amplifiers, which were to be used by amateur constructors as well as by manufacturers as the basis for many products that formed part of the high fidelity audio movement in Britain in the 1960s.

Particularly iconic designs were the Mullard 5-10 and the Mullard 5-20, ten and twenty watt power amplifiers. Circuits for preamplifiers with tone controls and tape recorder amplifiers were also included, along with information regarding record and tape equalisation standards.

References

See also 
National Valve Museum page
Scan of Mullard Circuits for Audio Amplifiers, 1963, Archive.org

Technical books
Inventive Designers. Inventive Designers is an Antwerp, Belgium based software development company, which belongs to the Unifiedpost group. The company was founded in 1994 by Guy Dehond and Patrick Morren.
Guy Dehond was one of the beta testers of the IBM AS/400 (codenamed "Silverlake") at IBM. Dehond and Morren had worked with this system for years, and their first products were for the AS/400 and its OS/400 operating system. Later they started to design products for cross-platform environments. Today, the company specializes in software for customer communications management in the public, financial, telecommunications, utility, insurance and healthcare industry, in over 30 countries.

In 2010, the company received a CIOnet Innovation Award.

The company participates in the AFP Consortium and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). At the W3C, Inventive Designers was active in the XSL Working Group, and Chief Technical Officer Klaas Bals was the editor of XSL Requirements 2.0 document. Currently, the company plays an active role in W3C's Forms Working Group.

At the end of 2012 Guy Dehond handed over the company to his daughter Joke Dehond and his son-in-law Klaas Bals.

In May 2017, Jim Verbist was named CEO of the company. In December 2018, the company was acquired by Unifiedpost.

Company timeline

References 

Software companies of Belgium
Belgian companies established in 1994
Companies based in Antwerp
Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology. The Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology is awarded annually by the National Building Museum to recognize outstanding leadership and innovation in the field of construction methods and processes, including engineering design and construction techniques and practices. Created in 2002 by an endowment established by the Turner Construction Company and named after the company's founder, the prize carries a cash award of $25,000.

Past honorees include individuals and organizations such as architect I. M. Pei, for encouraging construction and engineering innovation with his designs; Stanford University civil engineering professor Paul Teicholz, for his work in paving the way for Building Information Modeling; and Engineers Without Borders–USA for efforts in creating sustainable infrastructure in poverty-stricken world communities and for "instilling a sense of global responsibility in the next generation of engineers," according to the award jury. When Frank Gehry accepted the prize on behalf of Gehry Partners in 2007, he stated, "I've gotten a lot of awards from the artsy side of the profession, but this one's from the meat-and-potatoes side, and that's pretty special."
In addition to the Turner Prize, the National Building Museum also awards the Vincent Scully Prize, which honors exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design, and the Honor Award for individuals and organizations who have made important contributions to the U.S.'s building heritage.

List of Turner Prize winners

References

External links
 National Building Museum's information on the Turner Prize
 Turner Construction's information on the Turner Prize

Architecture awards
Oswald Lange. Oswald Hermann Lange (June 1, 1912 – February 20, 2000) was a German-American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group".  He contributed to early military aerospace projects, including the V-2 and Wasserfall, and eventually became project director of Saturn V.

Biography

Lange earned his master's degree from the University of Breslau and PhD from the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin). He worked at Peenemünde from 1940 to 1945 on guidance and control aspects of the V-2 ballistic missile and the Wasserfall surface-to-air missile. After World War II, he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (1947), but emigrated to the US in 1954, working briefly at Martin Aircraft. In 1959, he was naturalized as a US citizen and became head of the Saturn project office. He retired in 1977.

References

American aerospace engineers
Early spaceflight scientists
German emigrants to the United States
Immigrants to the United States
20th-century German inventors
German people of World War II
German rocket scientists
German spaceflight pioneers
1912 births
2000 deaths
20th-century American engineers
People from Chojnów
People from the Province of Silesia
Technische Universität Berlin alumni
CL-HTTP. CL-HTTP is a web server, client and proxy written in Common Lisp. It is based on its own web application framework. It was written by John C. Mallery "in about 10 days" starting in 1994 on a Symbolics Lisp Machine. In the same year a port to Macintosh Common Lisp was done. In 1996 CL-HTTP became the first web server to support the HTTP 1.1 protocol. It runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, Symbolics Genera and Microsoft Windows.

CL-HTTP makes extensive use of the Common Lisp Object System and the macro capabilities of Lisp.

Usage

CL-HTTP has been used in several applications. ELM-ART is a tutoring system written in Common Lisp using CL-HTTP.
It was later commercialized as NetCoach.
InterBook is an early adaptive electronic textbook, also written on top of CL-HTTP.
Cl-HTTP has been used very early as a tool to create web interfaces for applications.

In 1994, CL-HTTP was used by the W3C and other members of the IETF HTTP working group to develop reference clients and servers for HTTP 1.1.

Most prominently, CL-HTTP was used during the presidency of Bill Clinton as the web server for the White House Publications web site. It distributed the daily press releases and official publications of the Clinton Administration.

CL-HTTP has been used as an example of a non-trivial Lisp application.

Features

 Object-oriented architecture using the Common Lisp Object System
 SSL support
 Server
 Handling of static files
 Computed content, Computed forms
 HTML generation with Lisp macros
 Virtual servers
 Web page access authentication
 Custom logging
 Server-side includes
 Caching Proxy
 Client

References

External links
 CL-HTTP website
 CL-HTTP Primer

Web server software
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Metallomics (journal). Metallomics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the growing research field of metallomics. The journal's scope is aimed at "elucidating the identification, distribution, dynamics, role and impact of metals and metalloids in biological systems". It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The executive editor is Jeanne Andres, while the current chair of the editorial board is David Giedroc at Indiana University Bloomington.

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
 Chemical Abstracts Service/CASSI
 PubMed/MEDLINE
 Science Citation Index
 Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.526.

References

External links 

 

Chemistry journals
Biology journals
Royal Society of Chemistry academic journals
Academic journals established in 2009
English-language journals
Monthly journals
AQC. AQC may refer to:

 Adiabatic quantum computation, a quantum computing model that relies on the adiabatic theorem to do calculations
 Analytical quality control in laboratories
 AQC (airport), an airport in Klawock, Alaska
 Association Québécoise de Criminalistique [Canada]

See also 
 aqc, the ISO 639-3 code for the Archi language of the Caucasus
Tata Pixel. The Tata Pixel was a concept rear-engined four-passenger city car, unveiled on 1 March 2011 by Tata Motors at the 81st International Motor Show in Geneva. Aimed primarily at the European market, it was primarily based on the Tata Nano platform.

History
The Tata Pixel is based upon the Nano Europa concept which was first shown at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. Complying to the Europa concept, Nano was upgraded to meet EU safety and emission standards. The concept had undergone a series of improvements over the standard Nano, including an extended wheelbase, a new 3-cylinder engine, power steering, an anti-lock braking system (ABS), an improved interior and exterior and it was also heavier than the standard Nano.

Features
The Tata Pixel concept includes the following features

Zero Turn Drive
The Tata Pixel is able to maneuver and can be parked in tight spaces due to the zero turn toroidal traction-drive, Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT), and due to its steering system design. This results in a turning circle radius of 2.6 meters. The steering and the transmission work together so that each wheel is driven independently with inputs from the steering system. By applying reverse drive on a single rear wheel and forward drive on a single front wheel, the car is able to turn almost in its own length.

Low Carbon Footprint and High Fuel Efficiency
The Tata Pixel features a start stop hybrid and regenerative braking system, with a fuel efficient and low emission diesel engine. It has  emissions of 89 gm/km and combined cycle fuel economy of 1 litre/100 km.

Design
The Tata Pixel features a monographic roof, silver shaped window graphic and forward sweeping roof line. It also features 2 scissor doors for easy access and visibility.

My Tata Connect
"My Tata Connect" is a platform which provides integration of smart phones or tablet with the vehicle's information, and entertainment system and also allows the user to control the key functions of the car.

Technical specifications
The Pixel is a  car with a three-cylinder 1200 cc rear engine.

See also 
 City car
 A-segment
 Tata Nano
 Mobius Motors

External links
 three websites are expired or invalid Tata Pixel. Unveiled on 1 March 2011 by Tata Motors at the 81st International Geneva Motor Show.
 Tata Megapixel. Newer version, unveiled on 6 March 2012 by Tata Motors at the 82nd International Geneva Motor Show.
 Tata Pixel – Official product page

References

2000s cars
City cars
Hatchbacks
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Rear-engined vehicles
Pixel
Cars introduced in 2011
Antonov 181. Antonov built product 181 (, ) was a Soviet experimental aeroplane rolled-out at the end of the 1980s.

History
The Antonov An-181 (or product 181) project was terminated due to the lack of funds following the collapse of the Soviet Union. An interesting feature of the plane is its unusual arc-shaped wing, a so-called Channel wing. The aircraft has two seats next to each other, a tricycle fixed landing gear configuration, a V-tailplane, and high-wing equipped with a channel wing in the area of the propellers. Power from the engine is delivered by means of drive shafts and deflection gearboxes to the two-blade propellers. The aircraft received the registration СССР-190101 and is exhibited in the State Museum of Aviation of Ukraine. Willard Ray Custer had previously built aeroplanes with the same wing concept in the USA.

Specifications
General characteristics
 Crew: 2 people
 Length: 7,31 m
 Wingspan: 7,3 m
 Height: 2,5 m
 Wing area: 7 m²
 Normal take-off weight: 820 kg
 Maximum take-off weight: 900 kg
 Engine: AP LOM M-337A, 6 cylinders, 103 kW
 Propeller diameter: 1.5 m
 Maximum speed: 225 km / h
 Practical range: 530 km
 Service height: 4200 m
 Starting distance: 70 m
 Landing distance: 80 m

See also

References

Sources

 Antonov X plane

1980s Soviet experimental aircraft
V-tail aircraft
An-181
High-wing aircraft
Channel-wing aircraft
Single-engined twin-prop tractor aircraft
Bowlus BS-100 Super Albatross. The Bowlus BS-100 Super Albatross is a single seat, mid-wing glider that was designed by Hawley Bowlus in 1938.

Design and development
The Super Albatross was created from a Baby Albatross fuselage pod and tail boom. The wings used the outer panels of the Senior Albatross. The resulting aircraft was of wooden construction, with the wings and tail surfaces covered in aircraft fabric. The tail boom is a metal tube.

Only two examples were constructed. The first was built by Bowlus and features an all-flying horizontal stabilizer. The second was built by Frank Kelsey and has a fixed horizontal stabilizer and flaps in addition to spoilers.

Aircraft on display
National Soaring Museum
US Southwest Soaring Museum

Specifications (Super Albatross)

References

1930s United States sailplanes
Bowlus aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938
540th Aircraft Control and Warning Group. The 540th Aircraft Control and Warning Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was assigned to the 32d Air Division, stationed at Stewart Air Force Base, New York. It was inactivated on 6 February 1952.

This command and control organization activated on 16 February 1953, and was responsible for the organization, manning and equipping of new Aircraft Control and Warning (Radar) units.  It was dissolved after about a year, with the units being assigned directly to the 32d AD.

Components

 653d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron 
 Stewart AFB, New York, 1 March 1950 – 6 February 1952
 654th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Brunswick AFS, Maine, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952
 655th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Watertown AFS, New York, 1 June 1950 – 6 February 1952
 656th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Saratoga Springs AFS, New York, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952
 657th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Fort Williams, Maine, 1 January – 1 October 1951
 690th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron 
 Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 1 May 1951 – 6 February 1952 (not manned or equipped)
 762d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 North Truro AFS, Massachusetts, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952

 763d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Lockport AFS, New York, 1 September 1951 – 6 February 1952
 764th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Saint Albans AFS, Vermont, 1 September 1951 – 6 February 1952
 765th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Charleston AFS, Maine, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952
 766th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Caswell AFS, Maine, 1–6 February 1952
 767th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Tierra Amarilla AFS, New Mexico, 1 January – 1 May 1951
 768th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Moriarty AFS, New Mexico, 1 January – 1 May 1951
 769th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
 Continental Divide AFS, New Mexico, 1 January – 1 May 1951

See also
 List of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons

References

 
 Grant, C.L., The Development of Continental Air Defense to 1 September 1954, (1961), USAF Historical Study No. 126
 
 

Aerospace Defense Command units
Air control groups of the United States Air Force
1951 establishments in New York (state)
1952 disestablishments in New York (state)
First Ministry of Machine Building. First Ministry of Machine Industry of the PRC (中华人民共和国第一机械工业部) was one of the central offices in the People's Republic of China.

History 
The Ministry was established in August 1952. It continued to operate during and after the Cultural Revolution. 

 1952–1954: The First Ministry of Machinery Industry of the PRC
 1954–1982: The First Ministry of Machinery Industry
 1982–1987: Ministry of Machinery Industry
 1987–1988: State Machinery Industry Committee
 1988–1993: Ministry of Machinery and Electronic Industry
 1993–1998: Ministry of Machinery Industry
 From 1998: State Bureau of Machinery Industry
 From 2000: China Machinery Industry Association
 Since 2001: China Machinery Industry Federation

In May 1982, its name was changed to the Ministry of Machinery Industry. In December 1985, the ministry was liquidated upon the creation of the State Machinery Industry Committee. In 1988 it became the Ministry of Mechanical and Electronic Industry, and finally the Ministry of Machinery Industry from 1993 to 1998.

After 1998 the Ministry was abolished and the State Bureau of Machinery Industry was established under the administration of the State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC). Also SETC became defunct and part of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).

The State Bureau of Machinery Industry was replaced in 2000 by the China Machinery Industry Association, which in 2001 was renamed China Machinery Industry Federation.

Past Ministries 
Second Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of nuclear industry
Third Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of aviation industry
Fourth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of electronics industry
Fifth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of tank equipment and artillery
Sixth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of shipbuilding
Seventh Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of space industry
Eighth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of defense industry

Bibliography
 Malcolm Lamb: Directory of officials and Organizations in China, ME Sharpe Inc. Armonk, NY, 2003, p. 1911 +, , Volume 1
 China's Economic System, Routledge Abingdon 2005, 594 p., 

Government ministries of the People's Republic of China
Second Ministry of Machine Building. The Second Ministry of Machine Building (第二机械工业部) was a government ministry of the People's Republic of China which oversaw the nuclear industry of China. 

It was established in August 1952. In April 1988 it became part of the newly (now former) created Ministry of Energy Resources.

See also
First Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC
Third Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of aviation industry
Fourth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of electronics industry
Fifth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of tank equipment and artillery
Sixth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of shipbuilding
Seventh Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of space industry
Eighth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC

Bibliography
 Malcolm Lamb: Directory of officials and Organizations in China, ME Sharpe Inc. Armonk, NY, 2003, p. 1911 +, , Volume 1
 China's Economic System, Routledge Abingdon 2005, 594 p., 

Government ministries of the People's Republic of China
Third Ministry of Machine Building. The Third Ministry of Machine Building of the People's Republic of China () was a former government ministry of China which oversaw the aviation industry.

The Ministry was established in April 1955. After the Cultural Revolution, the first information about its business comes from March 1973. Under this name he was known to the ministry in May 1982. In April 1988 it became part of the newly created Ministry of Aerospace Industry.

At the close cooperation with the Soviet Union ministry was responsible for launching the production supplied by Soviet fighters F-2 (MiG-15), J-4 (MiG-17), JS (MiG-17PF) and J-6 (MiG-19) and bombers, H-5 (Il-28) and H-6 (Tu-16). Also launched its own production of J-7 fighter (MiG-21).

Modern aircraft factories in: Shenyang (J-4, J-5, J-6, J-7, J-8, J-11), Xi'an (H-6, H-8), Harbin (H-5) and Chengdu (J-7).

See also
First Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC
Second Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of nuclear industry
Fourth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of electronics industry
Fifth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of tank equipment and artillery
Sixth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of shipbuilding
Seventh Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC, ministry of space industry
Eighth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC

Bibliography 
 Malcolm Lamb: Directory of officials and Organizations in China, ME Sharpe Inc. Armonk, NY, 2003, p. 1911 +, , Volume 1
 China's Economic System, Routledge Abingdon 2005, 594 p., 

Government ministries of the People's Republic of China
Government agencies established in 1955
1955 establishments in China
Autoprotolysis. In chemistry, autoprotolysis is a molecular autoionization, a chemical reaction in which a proton is transferred between two identical molecules, one of which acts as a Brønsted acid, releasing a proton that is accepted by the other molecule, which acts as a Brønsted base. Any chemical that contains both acidic hydrogen and lone pairs of electrons to accept  can undergo autoprotolysis.

For example, water undergoes autoprotolysis in the self-ionization of water reaction.

For example, ammonia in its purest form may undergo autoprotolysis: 

Another example is acetic acid:

References 

Acid–base chemistry
Equilibrium chemistry