omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Bluebelt. The Bluebelt is a large scale system of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) in New York City. The program originated on Staten Island in the early 1990s, but has also been implemented in Queens and the Bronx. The Bluebelt includes structural and nonstructural stormwater management control measures taken to mitigate changes to both quantity and quality of runoff caused through changes to land use.

History
The Bluebelt program was initiated in the late 1980s by New York City’s Departments of Environmental Protection and City Planning, based on a suggestion made several decades earlier by Ian McHarg, a landscape architect. Acquisition of land began in 1991 for the project, one of the Northeast United States’ most ambitious stormwater management efforts.  The overall goal is to provide the necessary stormwater drainage infrastructure for a  region on the southern end of the island while at the same time preserving the last freshwater wetlands in New York City. The bluebelt uses a series of carefully placed BMPs at the storm sewer/wetland interface to reduce flooding and improve water quality. Creation of a self-regulating ecosystem that is native to the region is of primary importance to the program.

BMPs used in the bluebelt include stormwater wetlands, stream restoration, outlet stilling basins, and sand filters. Ninety-two stormwater wetlands were included as part of the Staten Island project. In order to integrate the wetlands into the natural ecology, the construction process is advised by restoration specialists since general contractors are typically not trained in proper plant selection and installation. The planting design focuses on quick establishment of the preferred successional communities that will complement the surrounding landscape, before invasive species take over the site.

The performance of the Bluebelt during the storms that battered the city in the early 21st century – including Hurricane Sandy – has been described as "brilliant".

See also
 Low-impact development (U.S. and Canada)

References
Notes

Further reading
"Staten Island nationally recognized for its stormwater management" Staten Island Advance
"Staten Island Bluebelt" Landscape Architecture (November 2005).
Articles on Bluebelt Clear Waters (Winter 2009) New York Water Environment Association
"Natural Security: Staten Island, New York - Natural Drainage Systems" American Rivers
Articles Stormwater Weekly (2000–2001)

External links
Staten Island Bluebelt Program - New York City Department of Environmental Protection

Center for Watershed Protection

Environmental engineering
Water pollution in the United States
Protected areas of New York City
Water infrastructure of New York City
Terrier armoured digger. The Terrier vehicle is an air-transportable armoured combat engineer vehicle for the Royal Engineers. It was developed as a replacement vehicle for the FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor used by the British Army.

Design
The vehicle weighs about 30 tonnes, light enough to be air transportable by C-17 Globemaster III or Airbus A400M.

A clamshell front bucket and side-mounted excavator arm will allow the vehicle to perform earth-moving and obstacle-removing tasks. It will have mine protection and can be operated by remote control from up to  in dangerous environments such as mine clearance. In normal operations it will have a crew of two. It has enhanced modular armour and will be faster at up to  and more mobile than the FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor, and has 360-degree day-and-night-vision systems.

The contract to design and build the vehicle was won by BAE Systems Land and Armaments in the UK in July 2002.

Other companies have been subcontracted to provide expertise in specific areas. These companies, together with an indication of their involvement, include:

 GKN Aerospace: innovative fuel system
 Caterpillar Inc.: powerpacks and C18 Caterpillar  engine
 Corus: fabricated hull

History
A prototype vehicle was officially unveiled on 28 May 2005.

BAE Systems built four demonstrator vehicles for trials. They went into production in their factory at Newcastle upon Tyne. A re-baselined Terrier programme was on track with reliability growth trials contracted for early 2010. Manufacture of the first TERRIER production hull began on 27 January 2010 at the company's Newcastle plant. The vehicle is in service as of 5 June 2013. A total of 60 vehicles were delivered to the British Army.

The French Military has shown an interest in purchasing Terriers from the UK.

Crew training
Training of the Terrier crews is carried out in the Terrier Mission Crew Trainer (MCT) developed by BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies (Insyte) at their plant in Fife, Scotland.  The trainer comprises a high fidelity simulated crew cab, with commander and driver positions, mounted on a motion platform, and surrounded by a 360 degree, rear projection, visual system.  The MCT allows crews simulate driving, digging and other vehicle functions.  Four MCTs are in development for the British Army.

References

External links
 Terrier Manoeuvre Support Vehicle at Jane's
 Terriers for the Royal Engineers Defense Industry Daily, 01-Apr-2009
 Alternative LDT lends itself to mobile equipment Hydraulics & Pneumatics (article on electronic controls of Terrier's hydraulic cylinders)

Military engineering vehicles of the United Kingdom
Military vehicles introduced in the 2010s
HMS Hornet (1893). HMS Hornet was a  torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was launched in 1893 and sold in 1909 for scrapping. Although the  torpedo boat destroyers were ordered first, Havock and Hornet were completed faster, making them the first destroyers ever built.

Design and construction
In April 1892, the British Admiralty sent out a request to several shipbuilders for designs and tenders for "large sea going torpedo boats", or what later became known as "torpedo boat destroyers". In July 1892, it was decided to place an order with the two specialised torpedo-boat builders, Yarrows and Thornycroft for two ships each, with Yarrows' two ships named  and Hornet. While both Yarrow ships were powered by triple-expansion steam engines driving two shafts, they differed in the boilers used, with Havock using 2 conventional locomotive-type fire-tube boilers while Hornet used 8 Yarrow water tube boilers. (This resulted in Havock having 2 funnels while Hornet was fitted with 4 funnels). Gun armament consisted of a single 12 pounder () gun, three 6 pounder (57 mm) guns, while torpedo armament consisted of three 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes, with one fixed bow tube and two deck mounted tubes, with the two deck-mounted tubes in a single rotating mounting, pointing in opposite directions, so that enemies on either beam could be attacked at the same time.

History
Hornet was laid down at Yarrow's Poplar, London yard on 1 July 1892. Hornets water tube boilers meant that it took longer to build than Havock, launching on 23 December 1893 and completed in July 1894.  The ship's performance during trials was generally successful, with only slight vibration noted and the ship steering well, and an average speed of  being made over a three-hour trial.

Hornet served almost all her service life in Home waters, although she did serve briefly in the Mediterranean in 1900. Hornets bow structure was strengthened in 1901. While the bow torpedo tube was found to be of little use, as it adversely affected seakeeping and restricted space forward, with fears that the ship could over-run a torpedo fired from the bow tube, Hornet retained the bow tube, while the two deck mounted tubes were removed by 1902. In February 1902 she was ordered to replace  as tender to , special service vessel, for duties in connection with the Sheerness School of Gunnery. She took part in the Coronation Review for King Edward VII on 16 August 1902, with Lieutenant W. B. W. Grubb temporarily in command from 8 August. In late October 1902 she was at Sheerness dockyard for a refit.

Fate
A survey in February 1909 found that Hornets hull was in poor condition, with buckling of the hull plating and estimated repair costs of £4,050. She was sold on 12 October 1909 for scrapping.

Notes

Citations

References

External links 
A history of her class

Havock-class destroyers
Ships built in Cubitt Town
1893 ships
Reinertsen. Reinertsen is a civil engineering, construction, and petroleum industry supply company based in Trondheim, Norway.  It was established in 1946 and remains family-owned. Its CEO is Erik Reinertsen and 
chairman is Torkil R. Reinertsen. In 2011, Reinertsen had a revenue of €400 million and 2,100 employees. It has offices in Trondheim, Orkanger, Oslo, Bergen,  Gothenburg, Stockholm, Murmansk (Russia) and Szczecin (Poland).

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of Norway
Companies based in Trondheim
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1946
Norwegian companies established in 1946
Asher A. Friesem. Asher A. Friesem is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Friesem received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1958 and 1968, respectively. From 1958 to 1963 he was employed by Bell Aero Systems Company and Bendix Research Laboratories. From 1963 to 1969, at the University of Michigan’s Institutes of Science and Technology, he conducted investigations in coherent optics, mainly in the areas of optical data processing and holography. From 1969 to 1973, he was principal research engineer in the Electro-Optics Center of Harris, Inc., performing research in the areas of optical memories and displays.

In 1973 he joined the staff of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and was appointed professor of optical sciences in 1977. He subsequently served as department head, chairman of the scientific council, and chairman of the professorial council. In recent years his research activities have concentrated on new holographic concepts and applications, optical image processing, electro-optic devices, and new laser resonator configurations.

He has served on numerous program and advisory committees of national and international conferences. Among other posts, he served for many years as a vice president of the International Commission of Optics (ICO) and chairman of the Israel Laser and Electro-Optics Society. He is a fellow of OSA, a life fellow of IEEE, and member of SPIE and Sigma Xi. In 2018, he received the Emmett N. Leith Medal, "For pioneering, seminal and wide ranging contributions to coherent optics, particularly the developments of new techniques and procedures in holographic applications and optical information processing." Over the years he has been a visiting professor in Germany, Switzerland, France and the U.S., has authored and co-authored more than 250 scientific papers, co-editor of four scientific volumes, and holds over 30 international patents.

He made the first full-color hologram.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Holography
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
The Electric House. The Electric House is a 1922 American short comedy film co-directed by and starring Buster Keaton.

Plot
Three graduating students drop their degree certificates, but each picks up the wrong ones off the floor.  Keaton plays a botany student who, accidentally, picked up an electrical engineering degree and is invited to wire a home using many gadgets.  The man who actually was the electrical engineer graduate exacts revenge by rewiring those gadgets to cause mayhem.

Cast
 Buster Keaton as himself
 Virginia Fox as Girl (uncredited)
 Joe Keaton as Extra (uncredited)
 Louise Keaton as Extra (uncredited)
 Myra Keaton as Extra (uncredited)
 Joe Roberts as Homeowner (uncredited)

Production
During the original scheduled shooting of the film in 1920, Keaton suffered a broken ankle filming a sequence with the electric staircase. The project was shelved, and then re-done entirely. The known version today is actually the second version filmed; no copies of the original footage from 1920 are known to exist.

See also
 Buster Keaton filmography

References

External links

 The Electric House at the International Buster Keaton Society

1922 films
1922 comedy films
1922 short films
1920s American films
1920s English-language films
American black-and-white films
Articles containing video clips
English-language comedy short films
Films directed by Buster Keaton
Films directed by Edward F. Cline
Films produced by Joseph M. Schenck
Films with screenplays by Buster Keaton
First National Pictures films
Silent American comedy short films
Surviving American silent films
Fiat G.12. The Fiat G.12 was an Italian transport aircraft of World War II.

Design and development
The G.12 was an all-metal low-wing cantilever personnel transport aircraft. It had three radial engines, one mounted on the nose and the other two in wing-mounted nacelles. The engines drove three-blade feathering metal propellers. The mainwheels of its landing gear retracted into the nacelles; the tailwheel was fixed. The flight deck and cabin were fully enclosed. Access was via a portside access door aft of the wing.

The G.12 was designed as a civil aircraft, but served mainly in military roles during the war. Only a limited number were built, some as late as 1944, after the Italian armistice. The G.12 inspired the postwar G.212 "Flying Classroom", the last Italian three-engine transporter. It had a crew of four.

Variants
G.12C 
14-passenger transport aircraft, powered by three 574 kW (770 hp) Fiat A.74 R.C.42 radial engines.
G.12 Gondar 
Long-range cargo transport aircraft. 
G.12GA
Long-range transport aircraft, fitted with extra fuel tanks. Three built.
G.12RT
Special long-range version, built to fly between Rome and Tokyo. One built.
G.12RTbis
One built.
G.12T
Troop and cargo transport aircraft.
G.12CA
18-passenger commercial airliner, powered by three Alfa Romeo 128 radial engines.
G.12L
22-passenger commercial airliner. 
G.12LA
22-passenger commercial airliner, powered by three Alfa Romeo 128 radial engines.
G.12LB
22-passenger commercial airliner, powered by three 604 kW (810 hp) Bristol Pegasus 48 radial engines.
G.12LP
22-passenger commercial airliner, powered by three 793 kW (1,065 hp) Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S1C3-G Twin Wasp radial engines.

Operators

Military operators
 
 Luftwaffe
 
 Royal Hungarian Air Force operated 12 aircraft
 
 Regia Aeronautica

Italian Air Force  operated some aircraft until 1956

Civil operators

Avio Linee Italiane

Ali Flotti Riunite
Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane

Specifications

See also

References

Bibliography
 Angelucci, Enzo The World Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft. London:Jane's Publishing, 1981. .
 Angelucci, Enzo The World Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, London, 1987.

 Stroud, John. European Transport Aircraft since 1910. London: Putnam, 1966.
 Stroud, John. "Post War Propliners : Fiat G.12 and G.212". Aeroplane Monthly. Volume 23 No. 1, January 1994. London: IPC. Page 64-68.

External links

picture of Fiat G.12

G.012
1940s Italian airliners
Trimotors
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1940
Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear
Dunlap's Creek Bridge. 

Dunlap's Creek Bridge is the first arch bridge in the United States built of cast iron. It was designed by Richard Delafield and built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.<ref
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</ref> Constructed from 1836 to 1839 on the National Road in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, it remains in use today. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (1978). It is located in the Brownsville Commercial Historic District and supports Market Street, the local main thoroughfare. Due to the steep sides of the Monongahela River valley, there is only room for two short streets parallel to the river's shore and graded mild enough to be comfortable to walk before the terrain rises too steeply for business traffic.

History
There have been four structures on this site. The first two collapsed in 1808 and 1820. The third, a wood-framed structure, needed replacement by 1832.

This bridge is constructed using five parallel tubular ribs, each made of 9 elliptical segments to form the  arch.

See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
List of Registered Historic Places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
List of historic civil engineering landmarks

Notes

References

External links

Dunlap’s Creek Bridge: Historical Marker Database
[ National Register nomination form]
Dunlap's Creek Bridge: History and Heritage of Civil Engineering

Bridges in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Iron bridges in the United States
Arch bridges in the United States
National Road
Syncrolift. 

Syncrolift AS is a supplier of ship-handling equipment for shipyards.  It manufactures the Syncrolift shiplift.

Shiplift 
The Syncrolift shiplift is a piece of equipment for lifting boats, ships and vessels onto land and back at sea for maintenance work or repair.

The vessel is maneuvered over a submerged cradle, which is then lifted by a set of synchronized hoists or winches. The vessel can be worked upon in place, or it can be moved inland.

The largest shiplifts can lift vessels up to 100,000 tons. Because of this capacity, shiplifts have almost completely supplanted the older dry dock systems, most of which could handle only one vessel at a time.

History 
The Syncrolift shiplift was invented in the mid 1950s by Raymond Pearlson when he was working as Chief Engineer for Merrill Stevens, a small Miami shipyard. In 1958 he formed Pearlson Engineering Company (PECO) to develop his invention.

In 1959, PECO was taken over by the British engineering group Northern Engineering Industries (NEI) . PECO became NEI Syncrolift, and later part of Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce developed the modern Syncrolift shiplift until 2015.

In 2002, Raymond Pearlson was awarded the Elmer A. Sperry Award for the "invention, development and worldwide implementation of a new system for lifting ships out of the water for repair and for launching new ship construction.".

References

Water transport

Links
www.syncrolift.com
United States Coast Guard Research & Development Center. The United States Coast Guard Research & Development Center (CG RDC) located in New London, Connecticut is the Coast Guard's center for operational analysis and mission execution solutions. The Research & Development Center is dedicated to maximizing its contribution by maintaining a balanced portfolio of projects that support the Coast Guard's short, medium, and long range requirements across all major missions. It is the Coast Guard's sole facility performing research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) in support of the Coast Guard's major mission areas of; Environmental Protection, Maritime Law Enforcement, Protection of Life and Property at Sea and National Defense Preparedness. The R& D Center's technology research includes: detection, interdiction and prosecution of drug smugglers; cleaning up oil spills;  maritime navigation safety; alertness and performance of commercial and CG crews; eliminating invasive species for ship ballast water. It is located in the Fort Trumbull section of New London at 1 Chelsea St.

References

External links
 Official website

United States Coast Guard
Research institutes in Connecticut
University of Connecticut
DISCover. Digital Interactive Systems Corporation (or DISCover) was an American company specializing in gaming technology for PCs.  They were the creators of the DISCover technology which allow PC games to be played like a video game console.  The technology, which features the "Drop and Play" engine, auto-plays CDs or DVDs and automates scripts for installing and updating games. Consoles with the engine connected to the Internet for game updates.  This technology debuted at the 2003 Electronic Entertainment Expo. An online service based on GameSpy called "DISCover Arcade" was also announced.

Machines using DISCover technology include the cancelled ApeXtreme, and Alienware's DHS series of media center PCs. Other partners included ABS, TekPanel, and Onkyo.

In August 2007, DISCover announced that their Hardcore White-Label Gaming System, or HAWGS, technology would be used for FiringSquad's Ammo digital distribution service. The following month, in September 2007, the company disclosed the InstaPlay desktop client, which improves the ease of use for accessing games.  DISCover chief executive officer David Ferrigno addressed Instaplay concerns and comparisons with other digital distribution services such as Direct2Drive and Steam.

See also
Alienware
Media center (disambiguation)
Tray and Play, a similar technology used in Windows Vista for the PC version of Halo 2

References

External links
Official website (Archived)

Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct computer systems companies
Sixth-generation video game consoles
X86-based game consoles