omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Myrmidon-class destroyer. The Myrmidon-class destroyer was a class of two destroyers that served with the Royal Navy.  and  were built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company as part of the group of boats known as the 'thirty knotters'.

Concern about the higher speeds of foreign boats had prompted the Admiralty to order new destroyers capable of , rather than the  requirement which had been standard.  The boats were not able to make this speed in bad weather, where they were usually wet and uncomfortable with cramped crew quarters, but they proved their toughness in serving in the Great War, despite being twenty years old.  Thanks to their watertight bulkheads, their thin plating and light structure was able to take a great deal of damage and remain afloat, although their plates buckled easily affecting their handling. Myrmidon was sunk after a collision in 1917, while Syren served through the war and was broken up after the end of hostilities.

The ships were fitted with Reed boilers which generated around .  They were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes and carried a complement of 63 officers and men.  Ships of this type bore four funnels and were designated s after a reorganisation in 1913.  These particular ships had a special form of funnel cap fitted which was designed to prevent sea water entering the space between the funnel uptake and outer casing.

Ships
 , launched 26 May 1900, rammed and sunk by SS Hambourn in the English Channel, 26 March 1917.
 , launched 20 December 1900, sold for breaking up 14 September 1920.

Bibliography

 

Destroyer classes
 
Ship classes of the Royal Navy
Nacho Barahona. Nacho Barahona (born in Madrid - 1970) is a Spanish film editor with over 225 TV series episodes, 14 short films, numerous advertisements and 3 documentaries to his credit, as well as 8 nominations and awards in film-making.

Biography
Barahona received a bachelor's degree in software engineering, at Madrid's Polytechnic University. He went to work as computer programmer and systems analyst in videogames, telecommunications and banking for large companies.

Attracted by the huge development of graphical applications and CAD, a career change resulted in training first as an advertisement graphic designer and graphic designer for multi-media platforms, interactive sites and virtual simulators, working with various Spanish universities.

In 1996, Barahona learned more about using Avid as a non-linear editing tool, and redirected his professional career towards editing in the world of advertising, collaborating with production companies such as 'Molinare', 'Dalton's Digital Brothers', 'Videospot', 'Full Fiction', 'Escosura', 'Videoreport', 'Propaganda Moviebox', 'Viva Video', 'Alaska Producciones', 'Genlock videoproducciones', 'Exa', '101', 'Telson', 'Resonancia Madrid', 'Com 4 hd' or 'Iconica'.

In 1998, he came into contact with TV fiction through the production company Globomedia (market leader in South America and second in Europe), and developed his career as a cinematographic editor, working on several of the most successful primetime Spanish TV series such as '7 vidas (Telecinco)', 'Javier ya no vive solo' (Telecinco), 'Los Serrano' (Telecinco), 'Compañeros (Antena 3)' and 'Policías, en el corazón de la calle' (Antena 3).

In 2004 he was signed up with the production company Videomedia to work on 'Lobos' (Antena 3) and 'Hospital Central' (Telecinco). After three successful seasons, in December, 2005 he was signed up with the production company Sony Pictures Television International to work on 'Los Simuladores', Spanish remake of the successful Argentine series for channel Cuatro.

Filmography

Television

Short films

External links

Spanish film editors
Living people
Mass media people from Madrid
Polytechnic University of Madrid alumni
1970 births
A130. A130, A.130 or A-130 may refer to:
 A130 road (England), a major road connecting Little Waltham near Chelmsford to Canvey Island in Essex
 Russian route A130, a highway in Russia
 Aero A.130, a prototype of 1920s Czechoslovakian A.30 biplane light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft
 OMB Circular A-130, a circular produced by the U.S. Federal Government to establish policy for executive branch departments and agencies
 RFA Gold Ranger (A130), a tanker which served in the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary in World War 2
Binder parameter. The Binder parameter or Binder cumulant in statistical physics, also known as the fourth-order cumulant  is defined as the kurtosis of the order parameter, s, introduced by Austrian theoretical physicist Kurt Binder. It is frequently used to determine accurately phase transition points in numerical simulations of various models. 

The phase transition point is usually identified comparing the
behavior of  as a function of the temperature for different values of the system size . The transition temperature is the unique point where the different curves cross in the thermodynamic limit. This behavior is based on the fact that 
in the critical region, , the Binder parameter behaves as , where .

Accordingly, the cumulant may also be used to identify the universality class of the transition by determining the value of the critical exponent  of the correlation length. 

In the thermodynamic limit, at the critical point, the value of the Binder parameter depends on boundary conditions, the shape of the system, and anisotropy of correlations.

References 

Statistical mechanics
Excavator controls. Excavator controls specifies ways of how a human operator controls the digging components (i.e. swing, boom, stick, bucket) of a piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe or an excavator.

ISO controls

The most commonly used control pattern throughout the world is the ISO controls. In the ISO control pattern, the left hand joystick controls Swing (left & right) and the Stick Boom (away & close), and the right hand joystick controls the Main Boom (up & down) and Bucket motions (close & dump). This control pattern is standardised in ISO 10968 and SAE J1177.

Left hand left = Swing left.
Left hand right = Swing right.
Left hand forward = Stick Boom (Dipper) away.
Left hand back = Stick Boom (Dipper) close.
Right hand left = Bucket curl in (closed)
Right hand right = Bucket curl out (dump)
Right hand forward = Main Boom down.
Right hand back = Main Boom up.

SAE controls
Beside ISO, the SAE controls is one of the most common control patterns in the United States. It differs from the ISO control pattern only in that SAE controls exchange the hands that control the boom and the stick. This control pattern is standardized in J1814 .

In the SAE control pattern, the left hand joystick controls Swing (left & right) and the Main Boom (up &down), and the right hand joystick controls the Stick Boom(away & close) and Bucket motions (close & dump).

Left hand left = Swing left.
Left hand right = Swing right.
Left hand forward = Main Boom down.
Left hand back = Main Boom up.
Right hand left = Bucket curl in (closed)
Right hand right = Bucket curl out (dump)
Right hand forward = Stick Boom (Dipper) away.
Right hand back = Stick Boom (Dipper) close.

Some excavators have the possibility to change the operating mode from SAE to ISO and from ISO to SAE.

See also
Society of Automotive Engineers

External links
 ISO 10968:2020 - Earth-moving machinery Operator's controls
 SAE J1177 Hydraulic Excavator Operator Controls
 SAE J1814 Operator Controls - Off-Road Machines
 http://www.digbits.co.uk/technical.htm
 https://mobile-automation.eu/products/excavator-control Excavator bucket grade control system

Engineering vehicles
Standards
Construction standards
Carlos A. Felippa. Carlos A. Felippa is a professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado. His research at Colorado concerns aerospace structures and structural analysis, with special interests in coupled field problems: elastoacoustics, aeroelasticity, control-structure interaction, thermomechanics and electrothermomechanics.

Biography
Felippa studied civil engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Ing. Civ. 1963) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.S. 1964 and Ph.D. 1966). After working at Boeing and Lockheed, he took a position at the University of Colorado in 1986, where from 1989 to 1991 he directed the Center for Space Structures and Controls.

Selected publications

Professor Felippa has over 150 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.

C. A. Felippa and K. C. Park, A direct flexibility method, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 149, 319–337, 1997.
C. A. Felippa, Recent Developments in Parametrized Variational Principles for Mechanics, Computational Mechanics, 18, No. 3, 159–174, 1996.
C. A. Felippa, L. A. Crivelli and B. Haugen, A Survey of the Core-Congruential Formulation for Nonlinear Finite Elements, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 1, pp. 1–48, 1994.
C. A. Felippa, Parametrized Variational Principles and Applications, Science and Perspectives in Mechanics, ed. by B. Nayroles, J. Etay and D. Renouard, ENS Grenoble, Grenoble, France, 1994, pp. 1–42.
K. C. Park and C. A. Felippa, Partitioned Analysis of Coupled Systems, Chapter 3 in Computational Methods for Transient Analysis, T. Belytschko and T. J. R. Hughes, eds., North-Holland, Amsterdam–New York, 1983.

References
 www.colorado.edu/engineering/CAS/Felippa.d/FelippaHome.d/Felippa.Fullvita.pdf

UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
American aerospace engineers
Living people
Engineers from Colorado
Year of birth missing (living people)
SERT-1. SERT-1 (Space Electric Rocket Test) was a NASA probe used to test electrostatic ion thruster design and was built by NASA's Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn).  SERT-1 was the first spacecraft to utilize ion engine design.  It was launched on July 20, 1964 on a Scout rocket.  It carried two electric propulsion engines; of the two, the first, an electron-bombardment ion engine ("Kaufman ion thruster") was run for a total of 31 minutes and 16 seconds. This was the first time that an ion engine of any type had been operated in space, and demonstrated that the neutralizer worked as predicted.  (A second thruster, of a different type, failed to operate.)

The test was followed by the SERT-II probe, launched into a 1000-km-high polar orbit on February 3, 1970, which demonstrated two mercury thrusters operating for 2011 hrs and 3781 hrs in space. Up to 300 thruster restarts were demonstrated.

The SERT rocket tests demonstrated ion engine technology that was later used on the Deep Space 1 probe and later missions.

Technical Papers
Sovey, J. S., Rawlin, V. K., and Patterson, M. J.: "Ion Propulsion Development Projects in U. S.: Space Electric Rocket Test 1 to Deep Space 1," Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 17, No. 3, May–June 2001, pp. 517–526.

RCA Astro-Electronics Division, SUMMARY REPORT on the DEVELOPMENT OF THE SERT I SPACECRAFT, NASA CR-54243 available at NTIS (accessed May 11, 2012).

References

External links
 Glen Research Center page on the SERT-1 mission
 A spacecraft for Ion thrustor tests, Pre-mission report for SERT-1
 Development of the SERT-1 Spacecraft, Summary Report
 Description and Operation of spacecraft in SERT-1 ion thrustor flight test
 Results from SERT-1 ion rocket flight test
 Thrust measurement of SERT-1 ion thrustors

NASA space probes
Bapuji Institute of Engineering & Technology. Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere (BIET) is an Engineering and Technology institute located in the city of Davangere, Karnataka, India. The College houses around 18 different departments. It offers Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in 12 Engineering Disciplines, Master of Technology in 5 specializations, Master of Computer Applications and Master of Business Administration degrees. Thirteen of its departments have been recognized as research centers and 12 departments have been accredited by National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi. It began offering courses from the academic year 1979-1980 and is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU).

Location 
The city of Davangere is the district headquarters of Davangere district with an urban population of 364,000 situated in the heart of Karnataka state. Davangere is well connected by both rail and road.  National Highway 4 connecting Mumbai and Chennai runs through this city just beside the college.  It is 265 km away from Bangalore and 255 km away from Belgaum and 140 km away from Hubli.

College fest
Every year the college holds the annual fest by name Davana with various competitions held across different streams and with active participation from different Engineering colleges across the state. The festival is of 3 days duration and is usually concluded at the evening of the third day with a grand cultural extravaganza. 
The college publishes its own yearly student magazine by the name "Technowave".

Notable alumni
Captain Naveen Nagappa, Indian Army officer, Kargil War veteran

See also 
Davanagere
Bapuji Educational Association

References

External links 
 Official website
 Technowave- college magazine

Engineering colleges in Karnataka
Affiliates of Visvesvaraya Technological University
Education in Davangere
Universities and colleges in Davanagere district
Odd Ogg. Odd Ogg was a toy of the 1960s that was produced by the Ideal Toy Company. The ODD OGG was a half turtle, half frog, and resembled a robotic version of this unique combination. Ideal Toy Company manufactured the ODD OGG in 1962. While ODD OGG might not be as popular as other toys produced by Ideal, such as Kissy doll, Tammy doll, or even the Magic 8 Ball, it is remembered by many baby boomers to this day.

The ODD OGG came with four plastic balls and the objective was for the child to roll them directly into ODD OGG's center. If a child succeeded in doing this, the toy would roll towards them. If a child failed to correctly roll the ball into the underbelly of ODD OGG, then the toy would stick out its tongue and move backwards.

References 

1960s toys
Products introduced in 1962
Ideal Toy Company
Hoffman tank gunfire simulator. Introduced in the early 1980's, the Hoffman tank gunfire simulator is a pyrotechnic device manufactured by Diehl Defence, used in military training alongside non-gunfire training systems such as MILES. It consists of an array of tubes (usually nine, though the variant for the Leopard 2 has seventeen) resembling a multiple grenade launcher into which explosive cartridges are inserted: these generate a flash, sound and smoke plume designed to imitate the firing of a tank gun.

Description

The Hoffman simulator mounts to a bracket which is mounted somewhere near the front of a tank's turret. On the M1 Abrams it is clamped to the bore evacuator, while on recent variants of the Leopard 2 it is mounted on the frontal turret armor. The system is manually loaded and fired electrically, with firing linked to the trigger of the tank's main gun.

The system is referred to as the "Simulator Tank Gunfire: Main Weapons Effect Signature" in US service, with the cartridges referred to as Simulator, Flash, Artillery M21.

Safety concerns

Over the course of 20 years of service with the US Army, the Hoffman Device acquired a reputation for being prone to accidental discharges: while it is only supposed to fire when triggered electrically, there were numerous cases where static electricity or other local electrical fields resulted in uncommanded firing. A series of internal documents obtained by CBS News in 2003 included statements that "the ammunition is always unsafe" and that many of the devices were "an accident waiting to happen."

In early 2004, modifications were made to Hoffman simulators to prevent uncommanded firing, and a notification was circulated stating that any unmodified devices found in stock should be destroyed.

References 

Tank guns
Turbojet train. A turbojet train is a train powered by turbojet engines. Like a jet aircraft, but unlike a gas turbine locomotive, the train is propelled by the jet thrust of the engines, rather than by its wheels. Only a handful of jet-powered trains have been built, for experimental research in high-speed rail.

Turbojet engines have been built with the engine incorporated into a railcar combining both propulsion and passenger accommodation rather than as separate locomotives hauling passenger coaches.

As turbojet engines are most efficient at high speeds, the experimental research has focused in applications for high-speed passenger services, rather than the heavier trains (with more frequent stops) used for freight services.

M-497 

The first attempt to use turbojet engines on a railroad was made in 1966 by the New York Central Railroad (NYCR), a company with operations throughout the Great Lakes region. They streamlined a Budd Rail Diesel Car, added two General Electric J47-19 jet engines, and nicknamed it the M-497 Black Beetle. Testing was performed on a  length of the normal NYCR system – a virtually arrow-straight layout of regular existing track between Butler, Indiana, and Stryker, Ohio.

On July 23, 1966, the train reached a speed of .

LIMRV

In the early 1970s, the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration developed the Linear Induction Motor Research Vehicle (LIMRV), meant to test the use of linear induction motors. The LIMRV was a specialized wheeled vehicle, running on standard-gauge railroad track. Speed was limited due to the  length of the track and vehicle acceleration rates.

One stage of research saw the addition of two Pratt & Whitney J52 jet engines to propel the LIMRV. Once the LIMRV had accelerated to desired velocity, the engines were throttled back so that the thrust equaled their drag. On 14 August 1974, using the jet engines, the LIMRV achieved a world record speed of  for vehicles on conventional rail.

SVL

In 1970, researchers in the USSR developed the  (SVL) turbojet train. The SVL was able to reach a speed of . The researchers placed jet engines on an ER22 railcar, normally part of an electric-powered multiple unit train. The SVL had a mass of 54.4 tonnes (including 7.4 tonnes of fuel) and was  long. If the research had been successful, there was a plan to use the turbojet powered vehicle to pull a "Russian troika" express service. As of 2014, the train still exists in a dilapidated and unmaintained state, while the research project has been honoured with a monument made from the front of the railcar, outside a railcar factory in Tver, a city in western Russia.

See also 
 Aérotrain – a contemporary French hovercraft train, also powered by a jet engine
 Aerowagon
 Schienenzeppelin – a German propeller-driven railcar of 1929
 Turboshaft

Notes

References

External links
A collection of photographs of the ER22 turbojet locomotive

Gas turbine multiple units
Jet engines
Railcars of Russia
High-speed trains of Russia
Experimental locomotives
Eagle Manufacturing Company. The Eagle Manufacturing Company of Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, first entered the farm equipment market in 1906 with a  tractor. In 1899 the company was located at 671 Superior St in Appleton Wisconsin. In 1904 it built a production facility designed by architect Wallace W. De Long. It returned to the marketplace several years later, in 1929 offering a 20-35 Model E. Based on a two-cylinder traction engine design, the engine measured 8.00x9.00 inches in bore and stroke. A truly massive affair, it was rated at 20 drawbar horsepower and 35 belt-pulley horsepower. Eagle also built its Model H alongside the Model E from 1926 to 1930. With an identical  bore to the Model E, but a  longer stroke at 10.00 inches, the Model H created a brawny  at the drawbar. Eagle was one of the first tractor manufacturers to use a 6-cylinder engine. It switched from 2 cylinders to 6 cylinders in 1930. Eagle built tractors from 1906, but halted production during World War II never to start its assembly lines again.

References 

"Farm Tractors", by Andrew Morland

History of Wisconsin
Appleton, Wisconsin
Tractor manufacturers of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Wisconsin
Avon-class destroyer. Avon-class destroyer was a class of three destroyers that served in the Royal Navy.  These three funnelled 30 knot vessels were redesignated C-class destroyers in the reorganisation of 1913.

The three ships, Avon, Bittern and Otter, were built by Vickers at Barrow, were 210 feet long and their Normand boilers produced 6,300 HP and 30 knots.  They were armed with the standard twelve pounder and two torpedo tubes.  They carried a complement of 63 officers and men.

References

 
Destroyer classes
Ship classes of the Royal Navy
HMS Avon (1896). HMS Avon was a Vickers three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895–1896 Naval Estimates.  She was the fifth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1805 for an 18-gun brig-sloop, sunk in 1847.

Construction and career
She was laid down on 17 February 1896, at the Barrow Shipbuilding Company shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness, and launched on 10 October 1896.  During her builder's trials she made her contracted speed requirement.  In 1897 during the construction of these ships, the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was purchases by Vickers, Sons and Maxim and renamed as the Naval Construction and Armaments Shipyard.  Avon was completed and accepted by the Royal Navy in January 1899. After commissioning, HMS Avon was assigned to the East Coast Flotilla based at Harwich.  She was deployed in Home waters for her entire service life.

In early January 1901 she was part of the Medway instructional flotilla, as Lieutenant John Roderick Segrave was appointed in command on 23 January. In early March 1902 she was at Chatham for repairs, after encountering a heavy gale during a cruise, and the following month she was paid off and her crew transferred to the destroyer . She subsequently had her boiler retubed at Chatham dockyard.

On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'.  Since her design speed was  and she had three funnels, she was assigned to the .  After 30 September 1913, she was known as a C-class destroyer and had the letter ‘C’ painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.

World War I
For the test mobilization in July 1914 she was assigned to the 7th Destroyer Flotilla based at Devonport tendered to , destroyer depot ship to the 7th Flotilla. In September 1914 the 7th was redeployed to the Humber River. Her employment within the Humber Patrol included anti-submarine and counter-mining patrols.

In November 1916 she deployed to the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla until the cessation of hostilities, providing anti-submarine and counter-smuggling patrols following the Easter Uprising of 1916 in Dublin.

In 1919 she was paid off and laid-up in reserve awaiting disposal.  She was sold on 1 July 1920 to Castle of Plymouth for breaking.

Pennant Numbers

References
NOTE:  All tabular data under General Characteristics only from the listed Jane's Fighting Ships volume unless otherwise specified

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C-class destroyers (1913)
World War I destroyers of the United Kingdom