omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Matthew Leander King. Matthew Leander King (May 20, 1878 – October 23, 1919) was an American engineer.

Early life and marriage
King was born in Panora, Iowa, the son of Anna Ross (née Caldwell) and John King. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Iowa State College in 1906. King was a charter member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, a member of the American Society of Testing Materials. He became a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1912, and belonged to various aeronautical and officers' clubs. He married Lucy M. Massure, the daughter of Phoebe (Duell) and Richard Henry Lee Massure, on Jan. 1, 1901 in Redfield, Iowa.  Their union produced two daughters, Harriet Marie and Helen. Through Helen, he was the maternal grandfather of actor Nick Nolte.

As an engineer
He spent five years as an experimentalist in agricultural engineering with the Agricultural Experiment Station of Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, during which time he invented the hollow clay tile silo. For two years he was superintendent and general manager of the David M. Bradley Implement Works at Bradley, Illinois. He organized the Iowa Clay Products manufacturers into the Permanent Buildings Society for the development of new designs of and uses for hollow-clay building tile.  King designed the Dexter Community House, which utilized the tiles in its construction.

Military career
King entered the army in September, 1917, with the rank of Captain and was assigned to the Aviation School of Aerial Observation at Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in charge of maintenance and repair of aeroplanes. He was advanced to the rank of Major in August, 1918, and in November of that year was assigned to Indianapolis as chief engineering officer for aviation in the Northern District. In February 1919, he was made acting director of aviation for the Northern District. In April he was transferred to Washington, D.C., and from there he was assigned on special missions until July when he became flight commander and chief engineering officer of the American Pathfinding and Recruiting Expedition. He was transferred from the Officers' Reserve Corps to the regular army with the rank of Major in October about a week before his death. While at Post Field he learned to fly and was given the classification of Reserve Military Aviator.

Further reading
"Transactions of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers," vol. 41, 1919, p. 1129.

References

1878 births
1919 deaths
American engineers
People from Panora, Iowa
Williston station. Williston station is a train station in Williston, North Dakota, served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line. The brick station was built in 1910 by the Great Northern Railway and is located at the southern end of Williston's downtown.  An interior and exterior restoration, begun in 2010 and costing almost $2 million, has returned the station to its original look.

With the opening of the Bakken oil fields in the 21st century, many oil production workers now also board and detrain in Williston, adding additional passengers to the route. Many workers from as far as the Pacific Northwest opt to travel to their jobs via the station rather than fly or take the bus. Amtrak conductors frequently let passengers use Williston as an unofficial smoke break or fresh air stop, partly due to delays caused by the sheer volume of passengers boarding and alighting at the station. 

Ridership at the station had a particular spike in Amtrak's 2012 fiscal year, when ridership grew by almost 82 percent to 54,324 from 29,920 the year before (though 2011 ridership had been partly degraded due to flooding along the route). This patronage continued even in the wake of terrible delays that plagued the Empire Builder for much of 2013 and 2014 due to increased freight traffic related to the Bakken boom.  

As of fiscal year 2018, Williston is North Dakota's second busiest Amtrak station, behind Minot.

Bibliography

References

External links

Williston Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide – Train Web)

Amtrak stations in North Dakota
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1893
Buildings and structures in Williams County, North Dakota
Former Great Northern Railway (U.S.) stations
Williston, North Dakota
1893 establishments in North Dakota
Frequency scanning interferometry. Frequency scanning interferometry (FSI) is an absolute distance measurement technique, for measuring the distance between a pair of points, along a line-of-sight.  
The power of the FSI technique lies in its ability to make many such distance measurements, simultaneously.
 
For each distance to be measured, a measurement interferometer is built using optical components placed at each end of a line-of-sight.  
The optical path of each measurement interferometer is compared to the optical path in a reference interferometer, by scanning the frequency of a laser (connected to all interferometers in the system) and counting fringe cycles produced in the return signals from each interferometer.

The length of each measurement interferometer is given in units of reference length by the ratio of measurement interferometer to reference interferometer fringes.  

To give an example: A frequency scan might produce 100 fringe cycles in the measurement interferometer and 50 in the reference interferometer.  The measured interferometer is therefore twice the length of reference interferometer, to first order (ignoring systematic errors - see below).

Reference interferometer precautions
A typical reference interferometer is held at a stable length in a controlled environment, to reduce the dominant systematic errors which arise from changes in optical path which occur during the laser frequency scan.

Uses 
The great strength of the FSI technique is the ability to simultaneously compare any number of "measurement" interferometers to the same reference length.  This has great benefit in a shape measurement system.

An FSI system is being used to monitor shape changes of the semiconductor tracker (SCT) on the ATLAS detector at CERN.

Precision 
The measurement sensitivity depends on how rapidly the laser is tuned and how well systematic errors are controlled.  Currently precisions of a few nm over a 6m path are possible in evacuated interferometers.  In a system built for the ATLAS experiment a target of 1 micrometre precision over distances of 1 m is expected to be easily achieved.

References 
 P A Coe et al. 2004 Meas. Sci. Technol. 15 2175-2187 

Measurement
James Key (Formula One). James Key (born 14 January 1972) is a British engineer who has worked in Formula One. He is currently the technical director of  Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber.

Education
James Key studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nottingham. Lotus Engineering sponsored him to his degree in 1996.

Formula One career
Key joined Jordan Grand Prix in 1998 spending several years as a data engineer, then became race engineer for Takuma Sato. Following a year in the wind tunnel he transferred to the vehicle dynamics department, eventually becoming the department head during the team's final few seasons as Jordan Grand Prix.

Shortly after the team's ownership transferred to MF1 Racing, he became Technical Director during the 2005 Formula One season following a brief period as Technical Co-ordinator. He was one of the youngest Technical Directors of a Formula One team, at the age of 33 years, along with Sam Michael (born in 1971) who became the technical director of the Williams F1 team at the age of 33 during the 2004 season. Key retained his position during the team's transition through Spyker F1 to Force India F1. 

In April 2010 he left Force India to join the Sauber team, replacing Willy Rampf as Technical Director. He remained there for almost two years, before leaving in February 2012 to accept an undisclosed offer with one of the British-based teams.

On 6 September 2012, it was announced that Key had joined Scuderia Toro Rosso as Technical Director, replacing Giorgio Ascanelli.

On 26 July 2018, McLaren confirmed that Key had agreed to become technical director of the team, replacing the ousted Tim Goss. On 22 February 2019, it was announced that Key would join McLaren from 25 March 2019, just after the Australian Grand Prix. He formed a triumvirate with Andrea Stella as Racing Director and Piers Thynne as Production Director, all under Team Principal Andreas Seidl. Key was sacked by McLaren on 23 March 2023 in an organisational change of the team's executive technical director role, replaced by David Sanchez following team dissatisfaction with the initial design and early season performance of their 2023 challenger - the MCL60.

On 7 June 2023, Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake announced that Key would be joining the team on 1 September 2023. He will take on the role of Technical Director again, replacing the ousted Jan Monchaux. He previously held the position of Technical Director under this team under its former name of Sauber in 2013, ahead of their re-branding as the Audi works team in 2026. He once again worked under Andreas Seidl, CEO of Sauber Group, who had served as Team Principal during the pair's time at McLaren. Seidl was later replaced at Sauber Group by Mattia Binotto.

References

Formula One designers
Spyker
1972 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
British motorsport designers
Scuderia Toro Rosso
McLaren people
Force India
Sauber Motorsport
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Multi-Application Survivable Tether. The Multi-Application Survivable Tether (MAST) experiment was an in-space investigation designed to use CubeSat spacecraft connected by tethers to better understand the survivability of tethers in space. It was launched as a secondary payload on a Dnepr rocket on 17 April 2007 into a 98°, 647 x 782 km orbit.  The MAST payload incorporated three picosatellites, named "Ralph," "Ted," and "Gadget,"  which were intended to separate and deploy a  tether. The experiment hardware was designed under a NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) collaboration between Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) (which is now part of the Arka Corporation) and Stanford University, with TUI developing the tether, tether deployer, tether inspection subsystem, satellite avionics, and software, and Stanford students developing the satellite structures and assisting with the avionics design.

The experiment is currently on-orbit. After launch, as of 25 April 2007, TUI had made contact with the "Gadget" picosatellite, but not with "Ted", the tether-deployer picosatellite, or "Ralph," the end mass.

Satellites 
The MAST experiment consists of three CubeSats (3U) launched together as a stack. The entire stack was about the size of a loaf of bread.
 Gadget
The middle satellite in the stack, called "Gadget", is the tether inspector. Gadget was designed to slowly crawl up and down the tether after deployment, acquiring images as it moves. As of 9 May 2007, the MAST team has downloaded over 1 MB of data from Gadget. Gadget's GPS receiver has acquired an almanac from the GPS satellites, but apparently has not yet achieved a trajectory solution.
 Ted
"Ted", the tether deployer satellite, is at one end of the stack. Researchers were unable to establish contact with Ted, and remain uncertain of its status.
 Ralph
"Ralph" is at the other end of the stack, and is described as simply a "tether endmass". Its design did include a radio, but the groundstation has not received any signals from Ralph.  They think Ralph's battery charge has dropped below the level needed to sustain radio operation.

Deployment
The experimenter team made contact with the "Gadget" picosatellite, but not with "Ted", the tether-deployer picosatellite, because the Ted pico satellite was powered only by a primary battery, which had depleted by the time the team gained access to the ground station. While the system was designed so that the satellites would separate even if communications were not established to the tether deployer, the system did not fully deploy. Radar measurements show the tether initially deployed just 1 meter, The mission experienced communications challenges due to limited availability of the ground station, which resulted in the team establishing contact with only one of the three pico satellites.  The team operated the "Gadget" picosatellite for nearly two months before terminating the experiment.

See also 

 Tether propulsion
 Tether satellite
List of CubeSats

References

External links
 

Satellites of the United States
Spacecraft launched in 2007
CubeSats
Stanford University
Spacecraft launched by Dnepr rockets
Satellites orbiting Earth
Lightweight programming language. Lightweight programming languages are designed to have small memory footprint, are easy to implement (important when porting a language to different computer systems), and/or have minimalist syntax and features.

These programming languages have simple syntax and semantics, so one can learn them quickly and easily. Some lightweight languages (for example Lisp, Forth, and Tcl) are so simple to implement that they have many implementations (dialects).

Compiled languages

BASIC
BASIC implementations like Tiny BASIC were designed to be lightweight so that they could run on the microcomputers of the 1980s, because of memory constraints.

Forth
Forth is a stack-based concatenative imperative programming language using reverse polish notation.

Toy languages

FALSE
FALSE is a minimalist esoteric programming language, with a complete implementation done in 1024 bytes.

Brainfuck
Brainfuck is an extremely minimalist esoteric programming language.

FlipJump 
FlipJump is a minimalistic One-instruction set computer.

Scripting languages

Io
Io is a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language.

Lisp
Lisp-like languages are very simple to implement, so there are many lightweight implementations of it.

There are some notable implementations:
 newLISP
 PicoLisp

Derivatives of Lisp:
 Pico
 Rebol
 Red
 Scheme

Tcl
Tcl-like languages can be easily implemented because of its simple syntax. Tcl itself maybe not so lightweight, but there exists some, if not many, lightweight implementations of languages which have Tcl-like syntax.

Ring

Ring is a lightweight multi-paradigm scripting language.

Embedded languages

ECMAScript
There are many embeddable implementation of ECMAScript like:
 Espruino
 JerryScript
 QuickJS
 Boa (JavaScript engine)

Derivatives of ECMAScript:
 Squirrel

Lua
Lua is a small (C source is approx. 300 kB tarball, as of version 5.3.5), portable and embeddable scripting language (with LuaJIT as a JIT compiler improving speed). It can be embedded in applications such as computer games to provide runtime scripting capabilities.

Wren
Wren is a small, fast, object-oriented scripting language.

References

See also
 Lightweight markup language
 Lightweight software

Computer programming
Programming languages
HMS Amazon (1908). HMS Amazon was a  built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She survived the First World War and was sold in 1919. During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla.

Notes

References

External links
 HMS Amazon , Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels
  OldWeather.org transcription of ship's logbooks August to October 1916

Tribal-class destroyers (1905)
Ships built in Southampton
1908 ships
World War I destroyers of the United Kingdom
William W. Destler. William Wallace Destler (born August 26, 1946) is an American university professor and administrator.  In 2017 he retired after having served for exactly 10 years as the 9th president of the Rochester Institute of Technology. He held the position from July 1, 2007, succeeding Albert J. Simone.

Previously, Destler was provost and senior vice president for student affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2001 to 2007.  He also served as a professor of electrical engineering in the college of engineering, dean of the graduate school (1999–2001), and dean of the engineering school (1994–1997) at Maryland.

Destler received his bachelor's degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1968, and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University in 1972.  His research specialized in "high-power microwave sources and advanced accelerator technologies".

Destler collects antique banjos; the number of instruments in his collection is purportedly more than 160. Destler is also an amateur folk musician and is a founding member of the Baltimore Folk Music Society. Destler released his first record, September Sky, in 1973. It was re-released in 2010 as a CD in S. Korea.  Destler also sang with the a capella trio, Rock Creek, with Wally Macnow and Thomas McHenry.  He sang with them on  Sharon Mountain Harmony on the Folk Legacy label and their self produced album Rock Creek. His latest CD, Would You Have Time, was released in 2016.

More recently, Destler has gained an interest in hybrid and electric vehicles. His own vehicles, including a Toyota Prius, a Chevy Volt and Tesla Model S, are often on display during Imagine RIT, where Destler is more than happy to personally explain the technology behind the vehicles.

In 2010, he approved the termination of RIT's quarter system, effectively switching the school to a semester system beginning in 2013. The decision was favored by the voting members of faculty and staff inside the Saunders College of Business, B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences, College of Imaging Arts & Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, College of Science, Staff Council, and the RIT Student Government. It was opposed by voting members of the College of Applied Science & Technology, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and the College of Science. 64% of students participating in an online poll voted to remain on the quarter system, while 18% voted for the semester system.

Retirement
In an email to the entirety of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Destler announced his retirement from the presidency of RIT effective June 30, 2017. He was succeeded by Dr. David Munson Jr. who was previously the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he served two 5 year terms.

References

External links

Presidents of Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
Cornell University alumni
Living people
1946 births
People from Rochester, New York
Vintage Aero Flying Museum. Vintage Aero Flying Museum (VAFM), formally LaFayette Escadrille Flying Museum, is Colorado's international aviation museum at Platte Valley Airpark,  northwest of Hudson, Colorado and  northeast of Denver, Colorado.

Andy Parks, son of the last World War I Lafayette Escadrille member who 'flew west', James Parks, maintains the legacy and history of the LaFayette Escadrille pilots. The collection of each of these pilots' original uniforms and memorabilia is on display in custom cabinets in a secured hangar of World War I aircraft. There is no other collection of this magnitude in the world today. The Parks have created a museum in a rural setting, much like a French rural World War I air field.

VAFM is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and its foundation was created by James Parks in 1984 as a historical and educational foundation.

Flying aircraft on display
 1917 Fokker Dr.I (replica) 
 1918 Fokker D.VII
 1918 Fokker D.VIII
 1917 Sopwith Pup 
 1917 SE5a
 1939 Vultee BT-13 Valiant
 Mullicoupe by Younkin/Dake (Mulicoupe is a combination of a Monocoupe 90 and a MrMulligan)

See also
Museums
 CAF Rocky Mountain Wing Museum, Grand Junction, CO
 Colorado Aviation Historical Society Old Lowry AFB Campus, Denver, CO
 Peterson Air and Space Museum Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, CO
 Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society Pueblo Airport, Pueblo, CO
 Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum Pueblo Airport, Pueblo, CO
 Spirit of Flight Center Lafayette, CO
 Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum Old Lowry AFB Campus, Denver, CO
Lists
 List of airport museums in the United States
 List of American Aero Squadrons

References

Footnotes

External links

 Lafayette Pilots' Memorial
 History of the Escadrille
 New England Air Museum's Lafayette Escadrille Online Exhibit
 Motivations of the Lafayette Escadrille Pilots by Guy Nasuti

Aerospace museums in Colorado
Military and war museums in Colorado
Museums in Weld County, Colorado
World War I museums in the United States
W.A. Chip & Pulp Co.. The W.A. Chip & Pulp Company was founded in 1969 to export woodchips from sustainable bluegum plantations after the Government of Western Australia granted a Bunnings led consortium rights to establish a woodchip project in Manjimup. In August 2000, the business was sold to Marubeni.

Before it was able to commence, environmental concerns had to be addressed, and considerable concern was raised by organisations that opposed the project. The Campaign to Save Native Forests, South West Forests Defence Foundation, and Conservation Council of Western Australia all published materials questioning the soundness of the project. As a consequence, within a few years of commencing operation, regular environmental reviews were carried out to monitor the effect of the operation.

The company has maintained production for three decades, and has utilised port facilities at Bunbury for the export of its product.

Publication
 Woodchip news Perth [W.A.] : (unknown frequency) Dec. 1973, May 1974, Mar. 1975.

References

 Arthur, J. A  and  Dziatkowiec. B.(1982) . Bulk haulage of woodchips for the W.A. Chip and Pulp Co. Pty. Ltd. under the Wood Chipping Industry Agreement : project profitability and agreement review  East Perth, W.A.: Planning Division, Management Services Bureau, 1982. Project Co-ordination report; PC 244/82 Report (Westrail. Project Coordination Section); PC 82/244.
 Heyligers, P C. (1977) The natural history of the Tasmanian, Manjimup and Eden-Bombala woodchip export concession areas  Canberra : A.G.P.S. 
 South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) (1979)  Non-compliance with the provisions for environmental protection in the Marri woodchip project environmental impact statement South-West Forests Defence Foundation. Nedlands, W.A.   
 (1988)  The West Australian woodchip industry : WA Chip & Pulp Co Pty Ltd : report and recommendations of the Environmental Protection Authority. Perth, W.A : The Authority. Bulletin / Environmental Protection Authority, Western Australia, 1030–0120. 
 W.A. Chip & Pulp Co. (1981) Forest management : an introduction to silviculture and the W.A. woodchip export project  Manjimup : W.A. Chip & Pulp Co.

Economic history of Western Australia
Marubeni
Wesfarmers
1969 establishments in Australia
Institute for Manufacturing. The Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) is part of the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge. The IfM integrates research and education with practical application in industry. It disseminates its research findings via a university-owned knowledge transfer company, IfM Engage.

Location 
The IfM is located at the Alan Reece building on the University's West Cambridge Site in the United Kingdom. Previously, the Institute occupied the former Cambridge University Press building in Mill Lane before moving to the large, custom building in West Cambridge in June 2009.

IfM Engage 
IfM Engage Ltd is a university-owned company, embedded within the IfM, which is responsible for the IfM's knowledge transfer and dissemination activities including education programs and consultancy services, short courses, and events. Projects range from small-scale operational improvements for local companies to a major business realignment of multi-national corporations and the public sector.

References

External links
 Institute for Manufacturing website

Manufacturing, Institute for
Cambridge, Manufacturing
Manufacturing in the United Kingdom
Research institutes in Cambridge