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Hiro Type 14. The Hiro Type 14 engine, (full designation Hiro Type 14 500 hp water-cooled W-12), was a water-cooled twelve-cylinder  W engine built by the Hiro Naval Arsenal (Hiro Kaigun Ko-sho) for the Imperial Japanese Navy.  The Hiro Type 14 engine design was based on the Napier Lion. Like the parent engine, and the Lorraine 12 Eb, it had three banks of four cylinders each, with the center bank upright, and the other two banks angled outward 60 degrees. In some cases the W engine is referred to as the broad arrow configuration, due to its shape resembling the British government broad arrow property mark. The first aircraft to be powered by a Type 14 engine was the Hiro H2H flying boat.

Design and development
Japan's military leaders discovered the value of aircraft while participating in World War I. It was necessary to import all of its military aircraft and engines as there was no aviation manufacturing industry in Japan at that time.  The Imperial Japanese did not want to rely on foreign products, yet that was all that was available.  To remedy this, Japan began importing state-of-the-art aircraft from around the world, and after close examination and study they incorporated the best features of each into their own design, thereby creating a uniquely superior Japanese designed and built product.

In late 1928 the IJN imported a Supermarine Southampton II from Britain. The Southampton was a twin-engine biplane flying boat, with the 500 hp (373 kW) Napier Lion VA  W-block tractor engines mounted between the wings. It was one of the most successful flying boats of the between-war period.

In 1929, Lieut-Cdr (Ordnance) Jun Okamura was assigned as chief designer to assist in the design of a new Japanese aircraft using the Southampton as a starting point. After performance testing at Yokosuka, the Southampton was ferried to the Hiro Naval Arsenal for further study. Testing and evaluation revealed several construction innovations when compared to the German flying boats that were also undergoing evaluation. Those features included an all-metal hull and simplified construction, both of which the Japanese Navy hoped to incorporate into the replacement for the outdated Type 15 Flying-boat.

The Napier Lion engines were closely examined by the engineers at Hiro as well. They were charged with creating a new Japanese designed and built engine based on the Napier engine that powered the Supermarine Southampton II.  The new engine was identified as the Type 14 engine, as it was accepted in the 14th year of Emperor Taishō's reign, as that was the designation method used at the time.

The 550 hp Type 14 engine, although notionally more powerful than the Napier Lion, flight tests of the H2H indicated the Type 14 engine had poor performance due to insufficient power, and it was replaced by the 600 hp Hiro Type 91 engine (an enlarged development of the Type 14) when manufacturing was shifted to Aichi in 1931.

Applications
Hiro H2H1

Specifications

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

Hiro Type 14
Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen railway. The Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen railway, also called the Hangshen railway (, formerly  or ) is the dual-track, electrified, high-speed rail lines (HSR) in service along the southeastern coast of China, linking the Yangtze River Delta on the East China Sea and Pearl River Delta on the South China Sea.  It is one of the eight arterial high-speed rail corridors of the national 4+4 high-speed rail grid. The southeast coast is the only region of high-speed rail construction where no previous conventional railroads existed.  Hence, the high-speed rail lines built on the southeast coast will, for the most part, carry both passenger and freight traffic, and will not be passenger-dedicated lines that comprise most of the other HSR corridors in China.

An additional bridge will be built across Hangzhou Bay for high-speed rail, which would provide a direct link between Shanghai and Ningbo. The Southeast Coast HSR Corridor is approximately  in length, and crosses three coastal provinces, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.  Major cities along the route include Hangzhou, Ningbo, Taizhou and Wenzhou in Zhejiang; Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Zhangzhou in Fujian; and Chaozhou, Shantou, Shanwei, Huizhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong. The line was folded into the Coastal corridor as part of the reorganization into the national 8+8 high-speed rail grid.

Constituent lines
All lines are now in operation.

Station list

See also
 High-speed rail in China

References

High-speed railway lines in China
High-speed rail in China
Rail transport in Shanghai
Rail transport in Zhejiang
Rail transport in Fujian
Rail transport in Guangdong
2013 in Shenzhen
2013 in Hangzhou
2013 in Fuzhou
Curtiss Model J. The Curtiss Model J (along with the Curtiss Model N) was a prototype tractor configuration aircraft that became the basis for the Curtiss Jenny series of aircraft.

Development
The Curtiss J was designed by Benjamin D. Thomas. Glenn Curtiss hired Thomas from the Sopwith Aviation Company while on a trip to London, England. He started designing the Model J while overseas, and is also credited with helping design the Model N and the Model H "America". The first flight tests were performed without fuselage covering. In February 1914, after a series of accidents with pusher aircraft, the U.S. Army held a meeting in San Diego expressing interest in tractor design aircraft such as the Model J

Design
The Model J had the engine mounted on the nose of the aircraft with a tractor propeller and was covered with clear doped linen or cotton, with tandem seating and conventional landing gear with a tailskid. The biplane wings were built without dihedral and the upper wing was considerably greater in span than the lower and fitted with ailerons. The Curtiss Model J S.C. No. 30 became the testing prototype for the JN, earning the title as the first "Jenny".

Operational history
The first prototype was rolled out on 12 March 1914. It was delivered to the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps on 28 July. At the time the entire United States military air fleet consisted of 23 aircraft.

1914 In September, pilot Lewis E. Goodier, Jr. achieved a record climb rate for an aircraft of 1000 ft per minute. Later that month the Model J would become the fastest aircraft in America with a recorded speed of 85.7 mph 
1914 October 8, SN30 flown by Capt. H. Le R. Muller reached a record altitude of 17,441 ft 
1915 Both model J aircraft crashed in testing.

Variants
 A Model J was demonstrated with floats in 1915 at Keuka Lake
 Curtiss J-2 - A smaller design of the Model J, cancelled.
 Curtiss Model N - The first prototype was built off a Model J modified in Hammondsport, New York.

Specifications (Curtiss Model J)

See also

References

Notes

 Bowers, Peter M. Curtiss Aircraft 1907–1947. London:Putnam, 1979. .
  (Describes both the Model J and the Model N.)
 
 

Model J
1910s United States experimental aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1914
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
HobbyKing. HobbyKing is a Hong Kong–based sales site that mainly distributes products dedicated to model airplanes and remote controlled (RC) models.

History
The company was founded in 2001 in Hong Kong by Karen Wu and Anthony Hand. The company targets the market with low-cost equipment for the models it sells.

HobbyKing, today, contributes to activities of the major players in the world of modeling part from young beginners.

The company opened gradually to local markets through the opening of regional warehouses, today it consists of seven warehouses in Hong Kong, Australia, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom and China.

On June 5, 2018, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a $2.8 million fine for marketing devices that utilized unauthorized radio spectrum.

On July 23, 2020, The FCC issued a forfeiture order to HobbyKing legally requiring them to pay the $2.8 million fine.

As of 2024, there are four warehouses still open; the ones in Europe, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and United States. On September 15, 2023, the UK warehouse was announced its reopening, joining the European warehouse that had reopened a month prior.

References

External links
Official website

Retail companies of Hong Kong
Companies established in 2001
Toy retailers
Online companies of China
Teknikum. Teknikum is an upper secondary school (in Swedish called gymnasieskola) located in Växjö, Sweden.

The school was founded in 1961 as an engineering school, offering three-year programs in mechanical, chemical, electrical and construction engineering, with an optional fourth year providing the degree of gymnasieingenjör. Although the latter was a professional degree (awarded until 1992), a large share of the students continued their education at university level, e.g. as Master of Science in Engineering.

Since the 1990s the focus on engineering has diminished, and the school offers a wide range of secondary level educational programs.

The building itself has been commonly referred to as “the prison” due to its architectural style and has been regarded by the locals of Växjö and others from Småland as the ugliest building in Småland

References

External links
Official website 

Gymnasiums (school) in Sweden
Buildings and structures in Växjö
Educational institutions established in 1961
Pacific Bearing Company. Pacific Bearing Company,  PBC Linear and PBC Lineartechnik GmbH, is a manufacturer and distributor of plain bearings, linear guides and custom machined parts.

History
Prodo Mach Corporation, the predecessor to Pacific Bearing, was incorporated December 1962 in Rockford, Illinois, before changing its name to Premac, Inc in 1963.
The company purchased precision machine shop assets from Harsco Corporation's Globe Imperial division, which had been in the Rockford area since the 1940s.
Premac originally manufactured ball valves; through the 1960s and 70s it expanded into making skid plates and contract machined parts for large midwestern companies, including Caterpillar, John Deere, International Harvester, Kendon Exeter and J. I. Case.

Premac was purchased by the Schroeder family in 1981 and was nearing bankruptcy by 1982, mainly due to lack of demand when Caterpillar went on strike and International Harvester left the agricultural market.
The owner, Robert Schroeder, incorporated the "Pacific Bearing Company" in 1983 in an attempt to dissociate the business from the Rust Belt.
Pacific Bearing was originally created as the sales company for Premac, but the two officially merged in 1985.
During the 1980s, the re-formed company shifted focus from metalworking to bearing manufacturing.
Its first bearing product was a line of self-lubricating bearings; the company also manufactured bushings, thrust bearings, and skid plates, and continued to produce custom parts.

By the turn of the century, Pacific Bearing had reciprocal trade agreements with manufacturers in Japan and Europe, expanding the range of products it could offer and opening new markets for its own products overseas.
The company changed names again in 2008, becoming "PBC Linear".
This name change coincided with the opening of a European office under the name "PBC Lineartechnik GmbH".
In 2009, PBC won Design World's "Leadership in Engineering" award for work in motion control.

Products

As Premac, the company manufactured ball valves and contract parts for heavy industry.
By the 1980s, it was producing round bushings and saddle bearings for hydraulic pumps.

Pacific Bearing's initial product line was the Simplicity bearing, a linear bearing that uses a special Teflon compound to provide lubrication and extend product life.
The bearings are designed to be size-interchangeable with standard bearings.
PBC went on to offer ISO metric and JIS metric versions of its bearings in addition to the original imperial sizes. PBC developed pillow block, flanged, and die set bearings as well.

The company holds multiple patents.
By 2019, its products included linear guides, linear actuators, rails, bushings, and several types of bearings.

References

Manufacturing companies based in Illinois
Companies based in Winnebago County, Illinois
Manufacturing companies established in 1962
Manufacturing companies established in 1983
Manufacturing companies established in 2008
1962 establishments in Illinois
FabFi. FabFi is an open-source, city-scale, wireless mesh networking system. It is an inexpensive framework for sharing wireless internet from a central provider across a town or city. It was developed originally by FabLab, Jalalabad to provide high-speed internet to parts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. It is also designed for high performance across multiple hops.

Background 

In January 2009, the Jalalabad FabLab wanted to bring high-speed internet to a village, hospital, university, and an NGO in the city. It used this low-cost design, building on a system designed to track sheep in Norway. The system could be easily extended to other villages and towns, and was designed to work consistently through heavy rain, smog, and trees.

Community members who used the fab lab received training and experience with the system for a month, after which they were given control and maintenance of it. Many locations began to join the initial nodes, expanding the mesh over the coming months. The longest link in the system was set up early on, between the FabLab and the water tower at the public hospital in Jalalabad.

FabFi around the world

Afghanistan 

Jalalabad has 45 remote FabFi nodes, with the longest link spanning 6 km. The total data throughput is 11.5 Mbit/s. The system is extensible by anyone without getting central permission, simply by adding a node and pointing it in the right direction.

The materials needed to make an endpoint link are $60US, and are available locally. An endpoint node that provides 360-degree coverage of the area near it might use more hardware and cost closer to $150US.

Additional sites in Afghanistan are being considered.

Kenya 

Kenya has 50 remote FabFi nodes deployed across three sites. The longest link among them is 3.5 km. The data throughput across roughly 2.5 km, with up to 6 hops, exceeds 30 Mbit/s.

This system is designed to get Wi-Fi directly to people's homes, and manages users and billing - a feature not yet rolled back into the global codebase or that used in Afghanistan.

Future sites and testbeds 

As of , FabFi systems were being tested in the United States.

External links 
 A technical summary of how FabFi works
 FabFi code wiki
 How to build: a server | nodes | reflectors

References 

Wireless Internet service providers
Jalalabad
Semantic Copyright. Semantic Copyright is a technological system that provides semantic information of intellectual property rights of works in digital format, which identifies by its own morphology. The project began in May 2009 after its presentation at the Role of Copyright Registries en Global Digital Networks and its first version was published and released their rights of use and deployment in March 2011. Its development has been developed by the Copyright Registry Safe Creative, the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Technical University of Madrid and Dialnet, supported by Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade of Spain.

Framework

It provides a framework based on semantic information, which enables systems to conduct automated telematics intellectual property rights of the files transmitted with content such as text, images, music, video, computer programs, etc. The three subsystems that make up the technological framework that includes Semantic Copyright are:

Identification of the work. The external system questioned by any node attached to Semantic Copyright over the copyright of a work. The identification was based on analysis of morphology own digital file containing the work, and it is not necessary that it include metadata or tagging SYSTEMS. Version 1.0 uses to recognize morphological fingerprint files: MD5, MD4 family and Secure Hash Algorithm.
Consultation. The external system can direct the query to any node that uses the Semantic Model Copyright.
Response. The answer semantics on intellectual property rights consists of two components:
Short answer to the fundamental information of the rights of the work: Author's name and basic features of permits or restrictions on use and dissemination of the work. This information allows the system to devise automated decisions on the distribution or not the same.
Web address included in the detailed semantic information to a specific ontology for the domain of the type of work (literary, art, music, video, etc.).

External links
 Semantic Copyright web page

See also
Copyright
Intellectual Property

Copyright law
Edwin King Stodola. Edwin King Stodola (October 31, 1914 – April 6, 1992) was an American radio engineer.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Cooper Union with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1936 (EE '36) and a Professional Degree in Engineering in 1947 (PDE '47). In 1936, he worked with Radio Engineering Laboratories, then he joined the U.S. Signal Corps in 1939 as a civilian radio engineer. Starting in 1941, and continuing through World War II, he worked at the Evans Signal Laboratory near Belmar, New Jersey. During this period he was responsible for developing radar to thwart Kamikaze strikes by eliminating the radar "blind spot" produced by flying close to the horizon.

Following the War, Stodola was a member of Project Diana, a Signal Corps project to investigate long range radar. Led by John H. DeWitt, Jr., this group consisted of a five-man team with Stodola as the chief scientist. During a test on January 10, 1946, this team became the first to bounce a radio signal off the Moon and detect the resulting echo (Earth-Moon-Earth or EME).

He left the Signal Corps in 1947 and became an engineer with Reeves Instrument Corporation. Stodola received the Presidential Citation from Cooper Union in 1987 in recognition of his contributions to radar and radar tracking systems, and the Radio Club of America's prestigious Armstrong Medal in 1991. A licensed radio amateur (W2AXO) since childhood, he was inducted posthumously into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2017 a posthumously-awarded plaque was mounted on the InfoAge Science History Learning Center “Wall of Honor” citing his contributions to Project Diana and the development of long-range radar.

He was married to Elsa D. Stodola in 1939. The couple had a son, Robert King, and three daughters, Cynthia, Leslie, and Sherry. Following Elsa’s death in 1965, he married Rose B. Stodola in 1968.  In 1983 he moved to Central Florida.

References

Further reading
 
 
 
 

1914 births
1992 deaths
American electrical engineers
Cooper Union alumni
Engineers from Brooklyn
I Engineer. "I Engineer" is a 1986 song by American new wave band Animotion. In the song, the protagonist says to his enemy in the form of the lyrical ego, that he will win.

After the release, the song was a commercial success in Europe (#2 in Germany), but was less of a hit in the United States.

Music video 

The video for "I Engineer" was shot in Blackheath, England, in the abandoned Royal Herbert Hospital.

There are also scenes crossing London Bridge, with the iconic building of the Financial Times newspaper in the background and people walking towards the city.  Joined with the song lyrics, this may point to a criticism of banking or business culture.

Track listings 
7" Single
 I Engineer – 4:02	
 The Essence – 4:06	

12" Single				
 I Engineer (Remix) – 5:53	
 I Engineer (Dub Version) – 5:08	
 Obsession (Remix) – 7:30

Charts

Cover versions 

1986: Michael Damian
1990: Camouflage
2003: 2 DJ's & One
2007: Bangbros

References 

1986 singles
Songs written by Mike Chapman
Songs written by Holly Knight
Songs with lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Animotion songs
Song recordings produced by Richie Zito
Mercury Records singles
1986 songs
Falcon Turret. The Falcon Turret is a low-profile main battle tank turret under development by King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau in Jordan, with technical assistance from South Africa.

Featuring an autoloader and capable of mounting the current RUAG Defense Systems GTC 120mm smoothbore gun, the turret was supposed to be fitted to Jordan's Challenger 1 (though it was decided to phase out the Challengers altogether) and other main battle tanks, and to be available for export. Operating similarly to a remote weapon station, it enables all crew to be located inside the tank hull rather than the turret, giving the vehicle a lower profile and the crew added protection.

References

Tanks with autoloaders
Tank guns
Bull Shoals Dam. Bull Shoals Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the White River in northern Arkansas in the United States. The dam lies on the border of Marion and Baxter Counties, and forms Bull Shoals Lake, which extends well northwest into Missouri. Its main purposes are hydroelectricity production and flood control.

The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in response to severe flooding between 1915 and 1927. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the construction of the dam as well as six others on the White River and its tributaries in the Flood Control Act of 1938. Construction started in June 1947 and the dam was completed in July 1951. When finished, the dam was one of the largest concrete structures in the world. From its completion until 2009, it is estimated that the dam has prevented about $225.5 million in flood damages.

References

Dams in Arkansas
Buildings and structures in Marion County, Arkansas
Buildings and structures in Baxter County, Arkansas
United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Dams completed in 1951
Dams on the White River (Arkansas)
Volkswagenwerk Braunschweig. Volkswagenwerk Braunschweig is a factory that makes Volkswagen automobile parts in Braunschweig (Gifhorner Str.), Germany. Production started on 1938-02-23 (before Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg) for manufacturing steering components of KdF-Wagen (VW Käfer) and tools for Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke in Dessau. Components for vehicles of VW Group (Audi, Škoda, SEAT and Bugatti) are produced, including running gears, axles, shock absorbers, brake parts and pedals.

As of 2006, approximately 6,200 workers were employed. It was the largest industrial site in the city. In 2010, the number of workers amounted to 5,548. In 2014, 6625 people worked there.

See also
 List of Volkswagen Group factories

References

Bibliography
 
 

Braunschweig
Buildings and structures in Braunschweig
Companies based in Braunschweig
1938 establishments in Germany
Economy of Nazi Germany