omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Enthought. Enthought, Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas, United States that develops scientific and analytic computing solutions using primarily the Python programming language. It is best known for the early development and maintenance of the SciPy library of mathematics, science, and engineering algorithms and for its Python for scientific computing distribution Enthought Canopy (formerly EPD).

The company was founded in 2001 by Travis Vaught and Eric Jones.

Open source software

Enthought publishes a large portion of the code as open-source software under a BSD-style license.

Enthought Canopy is a Python for scientific and analytic computing distribution and analysis environment, available for free and under a commercial license.

The Enthought Tool Suite open source software projects include:

 Traits: A manifest type definition library for Python that provides initialization, validation, delegation, notification, and visualization. The Traits package is the foundation of the Enthought Tool Suite, underlying almost all other packages.
 TraitsUI: A UI layer that supports the visualization features of Traits. Implementations using wxWidgets and Qt are provided by the TraitsBackendWX and TraitsBackendQt projects
 Pyface: toolkit-independent GUI abstraction layer, which is used to support the "visualization" features of the Traits package.
 MayaVi: 2-D/3-D scientific data visualization, usable in TraitsUIs as well as an Envisage plug-in.
 Envisage: An extensible plug-in architecture for scientific applications, inspired by Eclipse and NetBeans in the Java world.
 Enable: A multi-platform DisplayPDF drawing engine that supports multiple output backends, including Windows, GTK+, and macOS native windowing systems, a variety of raster image formats, PDF, and PostScript.
 BlockCanvas: Visual environment for creating simulation experiments, where function and data are separated using CodeTools.
 GraphCanvas: library for interacting with visualizations of complex graphs.
 SciMath: Convenience libraries for math, interpolation, and units
 Chaco: An interactive 2-D plotting toolkit for Python.
 AppTools: General tools for ETS application development: scripting, logging, preferences, ...
 Enaml: Library for creating professional quality user interfaces combining a domain specific declarative language with a constraints based layout.

See also

 NumPy
 matplotlib
 Anaconda
 ActiveState's ActivePython

References

External links
 

Companies based in Austin, Texas
Computational science
Free software programmed in Python
Software companies based in Texas
Software companies of the United States
Strickland Landis Kneass. Strickland Landis Kneass (July 29, 1821, in Philadelphia - January 14, 1884, in Philadelphia) was an American civil engineer, municipal surveyor, and railroad president.

Kneass's father, William Kneass, was for many years engraver of the U.S. Mint. His older brother was civil engineer and architect Samuel Honeyman Kneass. The younger Kneass attended Rensselaer Institute, where he graduated in 1839 at the age of 18 with highest honors.

After graduation, Kneass "held various surveying and engineering jobs, including the post of Principal Assistant Engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He helped conduct the preliminary surveys, and supervised construction of a section of the line, including several bridges and the Tussy Mountain Tunnel," wrote Adam Levine, a historical consultant for the Philadelphia Water Department.

From 1855 until 1872, Kneass was chief engineer and surveyor of the consolidated city of Philadelphia. Among other things, he "re-designed Philadelphia's drainage system, designed new bridges to cross the Schuylkill River, and set up the extension of the City's streetcar system," according to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. His most notable work is Philadelphia's 1866 cast-iron Chestnut Street Bridge.

In 1872, he became assistant to the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1880, Kneass became president of the Pennsylvania and Delaware and other railroads.

Notes

External links
 Norman White, his ancestors and his descendants: more bio detail on Strickland
 Creativity in Cast Iron: Strickland Kneass’s Chestnut Street Bridge

1821 births
1884 deaths
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Engineers from Philadelphia
American civil engineers
Pennsylvania Railroad people
Gerd Tacke. Gerd Tacke (20 August 1906 in Mittel-Sohra – 23 October 1997) was the CEO of Siemens from 1968 to 1971.

References

1906 births
1997 deaths
People from Zgorzelec County
People from the Province of Silesia
Siemens
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Carad. Carad was a brand of the Ets. G.L. Carpentier, a small Belgian electronics manufacturer located in Kuurne, near Kortrijk. It existed from 1925 to 1975. At the height of its activities around 1970, the company employed about 400 people.

History and products
Founded by Gabriel Louis Carpentier in 1926, the company manufactured and sold electronic and mechanical components such as rotary switches and variable capacitors for radio reception units. The Carpentier family was of the Kortrijk area and active in the flax industry. Later on, Gabriel Carpentier's son Jacques managed the company until it was sold to Thorn in 1971.

Before 1940, it had started producing its own radio receivers like the A525AF under the Carad brand (Carad = Carpentier Radio). The factory buildings were destroyed during the Second World War. After 1946, the company took up its full range of activities again. It developed new radio units, since the mid-1950s also television receivers. 

During the 1950s, it developed a line of high-quality audio equipment including amplifiers, tuners and tape recorders.

Tape recorders
While the first tape recorder (the EMR32PA, 1951) used the USA-made SoundMirror BK-416 chassis from the Brush Development Company in Ohio, the R62 (1955/56) was completely their own design, offering at that time a consumer tape recorder with three Ebm-papst motors, capstan spindles, three heads, 10" reels and an adjustable azimuth of the playback head. The R62 was followed by the R53 (1963), the R66 (1967, with transistor circuits), the R59 (1968, stereo) and finally the R73 (1971).

Other audio equipment
During the 1950s and 1960s, the company produced excellent FM/AM tuners and audio amplifiers. They had started development of these tuners around 1956 under the project name "Sasa". Most of this valve-based audio equipment used circuits based on the Circlotron principle. Combined with Garrard or Thorens record players, it was also proposed in high-end, expensive radiograms like the Chairside and the Pro Arte models featuring the Thorens TD124 with the Ortofon arms and cartridges. The shah of Iran was among the proud owners of a Pro Arte set.

By 1966-1967 a new product line appeared where valve circuitry was replaced by transistor units. To some extent, these units lack the originality of the tube units.

Final days
Under growing pressure from low-cost manufacturers, the company got into financial problems and was acquired by the British Thorn group in 1971. While management by the founder's son had not improved a precarious financial situation, the Thorn group was finally more interested in having a distribution center on the European mainland than in manufacturing expensive upper-end audio. It finally was decided to stop the activities in 1975.

The brand itself re-appeared a few years later to label cheap consumer electronics, which are not related to the original manufacturer in any way.

Audio equipment manufacturers of Belgium
Ancient Engines. "Ancient Engines" is a science fiction short story by American writer Michael Swanwick, published in 1999.  It was nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Short Story as well as the 1999 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

Plot summary
The story begins when a drunken human insults a mech in a bar.  The resulting fight nearly kills the human, who is saved only by the mech's kindness.  As the mech starts to leave he is invited to sit and talk with an old man and his granddaughter.  They have a discussion about what it would really take to build a machine that would last forever.

See also
 Long Now Foundation - The foundation has several ongoing projects, including a 10,000-year clock.

References

External links 
 

1999 short stories
Short stories by Michael Swanwick
Works originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction
A. Reyrolle & Company. A. Reyrolle & Company was a British engineering firm based in Hebburn, Tyne and Wear in the North East of England. For many years the company was one of the largest employers on Tyneside.

History

The company was founded by , a French electrical engineer and entrepreneur, in 1886 at Fitzroy Square in London to produce scientific instruments. He moved the business to Hebburn on Tyneside in 1901. At its peak it manufactured switchgear for power stations worldwide and employed 12,000 people.

The company had its own football team, which evolved into Hebburn Town F.C.

The company merged with C. A. Parsons and Company to form Reyrolle Parsons in 1968. In 1977 Reyrolle Parsons merged with Clarke Chapman to form Northern Engineering Industries plc, which was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc in 1989.

The business was acquired in 1998 by VA Technologie AG, which was acquired by the industrial conglomerate Siemens in 2005, reuniting the company with Parsons under the new owners.
Siemens supported the Reyrolle installed base on a global basis, with Operations and Protection based at the remaining section of the original Reyrolle Works in Hebburn, although this constitutes only around 10 percent of the original site. The Major Projects division is based at a modern office building on the nearby Monkton Business Park.

The New Zealand division, Reyrolle Pacific, was sold by Siemens AG/VA Tech to a private individual in New Zealand. This included the switchgear factory in Petone, with a staff of about 100. Reyrolle Pacific Switchgear became RPS Switchgear and manufactures retrofit breakers for the original LMT switchgear, and vacuum breakers and panels for 11 kV substations.

References

Further reading

 Arcs, Sparks & Engineers: A Centenary History of A. Reyrolle & Co. Ltd. (1901–2001), Alan Wright (ed.), Reyrolle Heritage Trust Press, 2001, 
 The Reyrolle Story, Robert Owen, Write Good Books, 2007, 

Engineering companies of the United Kingdom
Electrical engineering companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct companies based in Tyne and Wear
Energy companies established in 1886
Companies disestablished in 1998
1886 establishments in England
1998 disestablishments in England
Meinü robot. A Meinü robot is a Chinese fembot that was reported on in Chinese news sources in 2006. In Mandarin, Měinǚ Jīqìrén 美女机器人 literally means "beautiful-woman robot" and is officially translated "beauty robot".  The first Meinü was later named Miss Rong Cheng.

The unit is capable of locomotion, using visual navigation to avoid obstacles, speech recognition, emotion recognition (whether audio or gestural is not stated), and speaking.  It speaks English, Standard Chinese and Sichuanese Mandarin, and can recognize and respond to 1,000 words.  It can tell jokes, sing songs, etc. It is intended for tour-guide applications, businesses and hotels, advertising, and possibly for TV-show hosting. Rong Cheng is 163 cm tall and weighs 60 kg.

Rong Cheng was sent to the Sichuan Science and Technology Museum to be a receptionist or tour guide. The first copy build cost was approximately 300,000 yuan ($37,500), but the inventors expect this could be reduced to a third of that if 100 were to be produced.  Only one year of research was required to produce it, which suggests it was built upon other projects.

It was worked on by 10 researchers from the Robot Research Center at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.  ChinaDaily's English edition named the principal designer as Li Chengrong, whereas Reuters and Sina English said it was Yue Hongqiang.

See also 
 Actroid (a Japanese gynoid)
 EveR2-Muse (a Korean gynoid)

References 

Robots of China
Androids
2006 robots
Loire 102. The Loire 102 was a 1930s French flying boat designed as a mail plane by Loire Aviation.

Development
The Loire 102 was designed to operate as a mailplane on the South Atlantic route between West Africa and Brazil. The prototype (registered F-AOVV and named Bretagne) first flew on 12 May 1936. It was a flying boat with a two step hull on top was a superstructure with a control cabin and crew compartments. In the forward hull was a cabin for four passengers, and to the rear were holds for mail, baggage and other cargo. It had a high braced wing on top of the wing was four Hispano-Suiza 12Xirs in tandem pairs (in tractor/pusher configuration). It originally had twin vertical tail surfaces but these were replaced with a single large fin and rudder. The aircraft had severe vibration problems which could not be fixed and Bretagne was scrapped in 1938 without going into service.

Specifications

See also

References

Bibliography

 

102
1930s French mailplanes
Flying boats
Four-engined push-pull aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1936
Loire 210. The Loire 210 was a French single-seat catapult-launched fighter seaplane designed and built by Loire Aviation for the French Navy.

Design and development
The Loire 210 was designed to meet a 1933 French Navy requirement for a single-seat catapult-launched fighter seaplane. The prototype first flew at Saint Nazaire on 21 March 1935. The fuselage came from the earlier Loire 46 fitted with a new low-wing which was foldable for shipboard stowage. It had a large central float and two underwing auxiliary floats and was powered by a single nose-mounted Hispano-Suiza 9Vbs radial engine.

The prototype was evaluated by the French Navy against the Bernard H 110, Potez 453 and Romano R.90 with the 210 achieving a production order for 20 aircraft in March 1937. The production aircraft were fitted with four wing-mounted Darne machine guns (the prototype had only two).

Operational history
The aircraft entered service with the French Navy in August 1939, within three months five aircraft had been lost due to structural failure of the wing. All the remaining aircraft were grounded and withdrawn from use.

Variants
Loire 210.01
First prototype aircraft.
Loire 210
Single-seat fighter seaplane.
Loire 211
Prototype with a more powerful Gnome-Rhône 14K engine.

Operators

French Navy
Escadrille HC.1
Escadrille HC.2

Specifications

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography
 Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War: Volume Six Floatplanes. London: Macdonald, 1962.
 Green, William and F. Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighters. London: Smithmark, 1994. .
 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). London: Orbis Publishing, 1985. 
 Taylor, John W. R., and Jean Alexander. Combat Aircraft of the World. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. 
 Taylor, Michael J. H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions, 1989.

External links

 Loire 210 - Hydravion de chasse - Un siècle d'aviation française Aviafrance.

210
1930s French fighter aircraft
Floatplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Steam Elephant. Steam Elephant was an early steam locomotive from North East England.

Historiography
An illustration of the locomotive first came to modern attention in 1931 and it was then generally assumed to be the work of George Stephenson. More recent interpretation is based on research carried out at Beamish Museum for construction of a replica. This interpretation is based largely on contemporaneous paintings (one being the earliest known oil of a steam locomotive, by an unknown artist) and other material from the Museum archives. It is from the paintings that the name Steam Elephant has become associated specifically with this locomotive.

Description and interpretation

Steam Elephant was a six-wheeled locomotive of Stephenson gauge. It was built for the Wallsend Waggonway,
 an edge railway now known to have been of  gauge.

As with Stephenson's Killingworth locomotives of the year before, it had a centre-flue boiler with two vertical cylinders of about  set into its top centreline. The cylinders drove slide bar mounted beams which turned crankshafts driving the axles through 2:1 reduction gears between the frames. It had a tall, tapering chimney, the lower part being surrounded by a feedwater heater. It would have weighed about 7.5 tons and had a top speed of around  and a load capacity of about 90 tons over a short distance.

It is now considered to have been designed by John Buddle and William Chapman for the Wallsend Waggonway and colliery at Wallsend on the north bank of the River Tyne in 1815 using metal components supplied by Hawks of Gateshead. It appears originally not to have been very successful at Wallsend, probably due to lack of adhesion on the wooden rails there, nor on trial at Washington. Following the introduction of iron rails at Wallsend, it had a working life there longer than many contemporaneous locomotives, until at least the mid-1820s.

There is evidence that it was then rebuilt for use at the Hetton collieries, working there for a further decade.

Replica
Steam Elephant was recreated by Beamish Museum to work with passengers on its standard gauge "Pockerley Waggonway" in 2002, being assembled by Alan Keef.
The replica was designed and built by engineers Ross Clavell, Jim Rees and Dave Potter, finished in 1998. Clavell also designed and built the famous weather vane atop the engine shed at Beamish.

References

Early steam locomotives
Individual locomotives of Great Britain
Steam locomotives of Great Britain
Standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain
DECHEMA. DECHEMA is an abbreviation for "Deutsche Gesellschaft für chemisches Apparatewesen" (German Society for Chemical Apparatus), though it has since been expanded to "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie" (German Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology).

Founded in 1926, this is a non-profit organisation based in Frankfurt. It has over 5000 chemists, biotechnologists, and engineers as personal members, as well as other organisations and company members. DECHEMA awards prizes, such as the DECHEMA medal "for outstanding achievements in the field of chemical apparatus technology."

The main purpose of Dechema is to support developments in chemical technology, biotechnology, and environmental protection. It is seen as an interface between science, economy, industry, and the public. To this purpose the trade fair ACHEMA is organised and held every three years in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as the biggest event for chemical technology and biotechnology.

DECHEMA is a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, and acts as joint Secretariat.

See also
 Elektrolytdatenbank Regensburg
 Dortmund Data Bank

References

External links 
 Main website
 Connecat: website concerned with catalysis
 Dechema Chemistry Data Series
 Detherm
 Roadmap for catalysis research

Chemical industry in Germany
Chemistry societies
Scientific organisations based in Germany
List of VIA C7 microprocessors. The C7 microprocessor from VIA Technologies is a seventh-generation CPU targeted at the consumer and embedded market.

Desktop processors

C7

"Esther"  (90 nm) 
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, NX bit, VIA PadLock (SHA, AES, Montgomery Multiplier, RNG)
 VIA PowerSaver supported with 2 ACPI P-states

C7-D

"Esther" (90 nm) 
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, NX bit, VIA PadLock (SHA, AES, Montgomery Multiplier, RNG)
 VIA PowerSaver supported on Model D 1.8 and 2.0 with 2 ACPI P-states

Mobile processors

C7-M

"Esther" (standard-voltage, 90 nm) 
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, NX bit, VIA PadLock (SHA, AES, Montgomery Multiplier, RNG)
 VIA PowerSaver supported with up to 8 ACPI P-states

"Esther" (ultra-low-voltage, 90 nm) 
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, NX bit, VIA PadLock (SHA, AES, Montgomery Multiplier, RNG)
 VIA PowerSaver supported with up to 8 ACPI P-states

External links 
 VIA C7 product page
 VIA C7-D product page
 VIA C7-M product page

See also
 List of VIA microprocessors

C7
VIA
NSB Class 68. NSB Class 68 () is a three-car electric multiple unit operated by Norges Statsbaner between 1956 and 2001. It was mainly used for local trains as well as branch lines. The units were built in two series, the A-series being delivered in 21 units between 1956-58 and the B-series in nine units between 1960–61. The motor cars were built by Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri and Skabo while the centre and end cars were built either by Skabo or by Strømmen.

Though the units were taken out of service between 1994 and 2001, three units were taken over by the Ofotbanen for operation on the Ofoten Line.

External links

Entry at the Norwegian Railway Club
Entry at Jernbanet.net

68
Train-related introductions in 1956
68
15 kV AC multiple units
Harry Anand. Harvinder "Harry" Anand is the former Mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York; he was elected on June 19, 2007. He is the first elected Indian-American mayor in the state of New York. He was sworn into office on July 2, 2007. In June 2011, he was reelected to his third term as mayor. He did not run for a fourth term in 2013.

Anand is a chemical engineer who graduated from Punjab University in Chandigarh, India and later immigrated to the United States in 1982. He is the President of the now sold Royce International, an American company involved in the distribution of industrial chemicals.

Anand also served as the Commissioner of Police for Laurel Hollow. He attended the Civilian Police Academy in Nassau County, New York. He also serve as the Director of the Nassau County Law Enforcement Exploring Advisory Board. He was an active member of the Nassau County Police Reserves.  

After his election, many articles have been written about him in Indian and American media including The New York Times. He was also interviewed on the Meet the Leaders program on Cablevision.

In 2013 Anand moved to Sarasota, Florida. He became an active member of Sarasota Yacht Club. Sarasota Yacht Club is ranked among the top 50 private yachts in the world. Sarasota Yacht Club has been awarded the Platinum Club of the World.

On September 29, 2023, Anand was installed as the Commodore of Sarasota Yacht Club.

References

Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
American mayors of Indian descent
American politicians of Indian descent
American Sikhs
American people of Punjabi descent
21st-century mayors of places in New York (state)
Asian-American people in New York (state) politics
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Laurel Hollow, New York
NSB Class 67. NSB Class 67 is a three-car electric multiple unit operated by the Norwegian State Railways between 1953 and 1995. It was mainly used for local trains as well as branch lines. A total of 18 3-car units were delivered between 1953 and 1955. The motor cars were built by Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri and Skabo while the centre cars were built by Strømmen and the end cars by Skabo.

External links
Entry at the Norwegian Railway Club
Entry at Jernbane.net 

67
Brown, Boveri & Cie multiple units
Train-related introductions in 1953
15 kV AC multiple units