omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Andrew L. Riker. Andrew Lawrence Riker (1868–1930) was an early automobile designer known for helping the U.S. car industry to transition from electric to gas-powered car manufacturing. He began experimenting with electric vehicles in 1884. He formed the Riker Electric Motor Company in 1888 to make electric motors, and a year later formed the Riker Motor Vehicle Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey. (advertised as "Elizabethport".) The company was absorbed by the Electric Vehicle Company in 1901.

Riker was hired afterwards by Locomobile for their ICE development.

Riker was a Co-Founder of the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1905 and served as the first president for three years.

Wins 
 1896: Rhode Island State Fair (Providence, 7–11 sept.)
 1900: Springfield-Babylon-Springfield (14 apr.)

References

Further reading 
 James J. Flink. The Automobile Age. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
 Smithsonian Institution: America On The Move: Riker electric automobile
 A.L. Riker Photos and articles about the early years of the Riker Electric Vehicles

American automobile designers
American engineers
19th-century American businesspeople
Artists from Elizabeth, New Jersey
1868 births
1930 deaths
Businesspeople from Elizabeth, New Jersey
Engineers from New Jersey

American automotive pioneers
LocoRoco Cocoreccho!. is a 2007 platform video game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game was released on the PlayStation Network. Described as an "interactive screensaver", LocoRoco Cocoreccho! features an autonomous two-dimensional environment in which the world and characters play even without input from the player.

Gameplay

In the game, players control a butterfly (the "Cocoreccho" of the title) to gather LocoRoco that are dispersed throughout a level and direct them to a goal in a large enough group to pass through. The player can call LocoRoco to the character, which is depicted as a ring of light emanating from the Cocoreccho, which prompts LocoRoco to move toward the Cocoreccho. Players can also use the Cocoreccho to tilt and jolt various characters and objects within the environment by positioning the Cocoreccho on the intended target and tilting or shaking the controller. Along the route there are three types of minigames. In each mini game it is possible to increase the number of LocoRoco by up to 15 by achieving a high score.

Reception 
LocoRoco Cocoreccho received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Notes

References

External links
 Official website

2007 video games
Japan Studio games
Platformers
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Network games
Single-player video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Japan
American Bearing Manufacturers Association. The American Bearing Manufacturers Association is an industry trade group that deals with all aspects of bearing technology.  It was founded in 1917 as an informal group of manufacturers with the purpose of aiding bearing manufacturing during World War I. 1933 saw the ratification of Articles of Incorporation, by the then current members, as the Anti-Friction Bearing Manufacturers Association (AFBMA). In 1934 the AFBMA was incorporated as an organization in New York City. In 1993 the organization formally changed its title to the American Bearing Manufacturers Association in order to better serve its members and to expand membership eligibility.

See also
 ABEC scale - a tolerance classification developed by the ABMA's Annular Bearing Engineering Committee
 Ball (bearing)

References

External links
ABMA

Trade associations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1934
RV Argo. RV Argo may refer to:

 , more widely known in scientific literature and publicity as  RV Argo, was a  commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II.  She was assigned to Scripps Institution of Oceanography who converted it in 1960 under Office of Naval Research sponsorship and gave it the name RV Argo under which the ship conducted a decade of important and well publicized work. During that period Snatch was used for administrative purposes by Navy which retained title to the ship. (References at article)
 , an unmanned deep-towed undersea video camera sled developed by Dr. Robert Ballard through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Deep Submergence Laboratory.

Research vessels of the United States
Ships built in Napa, California
University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research vessels
1944 ships
United States Navy ship names
Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant. Open joint-stock company (JSC) NMZ or Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant () is a Russian (formerly Soviet) artillery factory in the Sormovo district of Gorky. It included the TsAKB artillery design bureau led by Vasiliy Grabin.

Currently, part of Almaz-Antey together with Almaz-Antey Branch no. 1.

Names
Previous names for this factory include Gorky Machine-building Plant (), All-Union Machine-building Plant New Sormovo (, Novoje Sormovo), Joseph Stalin Factory No. 92, Artillery Factory No. 92, Zavod imeni Stalina, or ZiS.

Products
Its products included:
 ZiS-2 57mm antitank gun
 ZiS-3 76.2mm divisional gun
 ZiS-5 76.2mm tank gun (version of the F-34 tank gun)
 ZiS-30 self-propelled antitank gun
 ZiS-S-53 85mm tank gun

Current products 
 Ship-based nuclear power plant for Navy (including surface ships and submarine)
 In 2006 Rosenergoatom and Sevmash signed a contract for the floating nuclear power plant. NMZ produced the nuclear power plants KLT-40S for it.
 Surface-to-air missile systems, anti-aircraft weapons, anti-ballistic missile systems and radars
 Artillery
 NMZ Production, a team who makes short films.

Main shareholders 

 JSC Concern VKO "Almaz-Antey" — 51% of shares
 Open Joint Stock Company Head System Design Bureau of the "Almaz-Antey" Air Defense Concern — 35,12% of shares

References

External links 
 

1932 establishments in Russia
Defence companies of the Soviet Union
Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union
Nuclear technology companies of Russia
Almaz-Antey
Manufacturing companies based in Nizhniy Novgorod
Manufacturing companies established in 1932
Companies formerly listed on the Moscow Exchange
Software parametric models. A parametric model is a set of related mathematical equations that incorporates variable parameters. A scenario is defined by selecting a value for each parameter. Software project managers use software parametric models and parametric estimation tools to estimate their projects' duration, staffing and cost.

In the early 1980s refinements to earlier models, such as PRICE S and SLIM, and new models, such as SPQR, Checkpoint, ESTIMACS, SEER-SEM or COCOMO and its commercial implementations PCOC, Costimator, GECOMO, COSTAR and Before You Leap emerged.

The prime advantage of these models is that they are objective, repeatable, calibrated and easy to use, although calibration to previous experience may be a disadvantage when applied to a significantly different project.

These models were highly effective for waterfall model, version 1 software projects of the 1980s and highlighted the early achievements of parametrics. As systems became more complex and new languages emerged, different software parametric models emerged that employed new cost estimating relationships, risk analyzers, software sizing, nonlinear software reuse, and personnel continuity.

See also
 Software Product Lines Online Tools

Business software
Software project management
Project management software
Software metrics
Torolf Eklund. Torolf Eklund (13 April 1912 – 12 December 2000) was a Finnish aircraft designer, who worked at the Valtion lentokonetehdas between 1935 and 1962. He privately designed and built his own small single-seat flying boat, the Eklund TE-1, in the late 1940s.

He was born in Helsinki. He graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology with a master's degree in aviation during the 1930s. As a student he formed the aviation club Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho, which still exists today.

He was a reserve officer in the Finnish Air Force and was working for the aircraft industry during World War II. Eklund was also the chairman for the Finnish Aviation Engineer's Club between 1953 and 1954.

Eklund was also the designer of the Valmet Tuuli aircraft.

Sources
Ilmojen halki I-II, Karisto, Hämeenlinna, 1974.

Further reading 

 

Aircraft designers
1912 births
2000 deaths
Engineers from Helsinki
Valmet
American Blimp A-170. The American Blimp A-170 is a blimp series built by the American Blimp Corporation now owned and operated by the Airsign Airship Group.

Holden Airship
The Holden Airship (nicknamed "the Holdenberg" by Australian news media) was a promotional gimmick operated by Australian car manufacturer Holden. The lightship was painted in the distinctive red and white livery of Holden and is flown at various outdoor events, such as Tertiary Open Day in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, on 25 August 2007 (see picture).

In late September 2007, The Holden Airship was decommissioned and flown back on an 22 hour journey to the US.

MZ-3

From 2006 to 2017, a modified A-170 was operated by the United States Navy as an advanced flying laboratory, designated MZ-3A.

Specifications

References

A-170
Twin-engined pusher aircraft
Ducted fan-powered aircraft
Holden
Tcon. TCON or TCon may refer to:
 The Chronicles of Narnia, a fantasy novel series
 a Truck CONstructed (TCON) or built (trailer closed) for transport from one location to another without opening the trailer at an intermediate cross dock facility used in Less than truckload shipping.
 T-con ("timing controller"), a class of application-specific integrated circuits used in flat panel displays 
The Conduit, a 2009 first-person shooter video game
 Tuguegarao Consortium - The largest ICT and Hacker Conference in Northern Philippines, Conference which organized by HackTheNorth a national non-profit organization from North Luzon, recognized by the ICT Community, whose objective is the professional growth of ICT Enthusiasts.

See also 
 Unit load
 Corrugated box design
 Track and trace
 Dimensional weight
Pertechnetic acid. Pertechnetic acid (HTcO4) is a compound  of technetium that is produced by reacting technetium(VII) oxide (Tc2O7) with water or reacting Tc metal or TcO2 with strong oxidizing acids, such as nitric acid, mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid with hydrogen peroxide or aqua regia.  The dark red hygroscopic substance is a strong acid, with a pKa of 0.32, as such it exists almost entirely as the pertechnetate ion in aqueous solution. The red color in solution is thought to be due to the formation of the polyoxometallate , while fresh HTcO4 is white. 

Use of strong enough acid solution, for example, concentrated sulfuric acid, can generate the protonated form, which then exists as the octahedral TcO3(OH)(H2O)2 dihydrate complex.

In aqueous solutions the pertechnic acid is complitely dissociated  and therefore it is considered as very strong acid its deviation from ideal activity being due to ion pair and triple ion formation with counter-cation of hydronium.

Density and activity values of pertechnetic acid aqueous solutions at T = 298.15 K are tabulated in.

See also
 Sodium pertechnetate

References 

Pertechnetates
Mineral acids
Transition metal oxoacids
Alfa Romeo D2. The Alfa Romeo D2 was a nine-cylinder radial engine for aircraft use produced in Italy. It was typically rated between 240 and 270 hp.
The engine was designed by Vittorio Jano, 600 units were produced between 1931 and 1934. This engine was also the first purpose-built aircraft engine produced by Alfa Romeo, previous Alfa engines used in aircraft were derived from engines used in cars. A supercharged derivative was produced as the D2 C.30.

Applications
 Breda Ba.25
 Caproni Ca.101
 Caproni Ca.105
 Jona J-6S

Specifications (D2 C.30)

See also

References

D2
1930s aircraft piston engines
Flexural modulus. In mechanics, the flexural modulus or bending modulus  is an intensive property that is computed as the ratio of stress to strain in flexural deformation, or the tendency for a material to resist bending. It is determined from the slope of a stress-strain curve produced by a flexural test (such as the ASTM D790), and uses units of force per area. The flexural modulus defined using the 2-point (cantilever) and 3-point bend tests assumes a linear stress strain response.

For a 3-point test of a rectangular beam behaving as an isotropic linear material, where w and h are the width and height of the beam, I is the second moment of area of the beam's cross-section, L is the distance between the two outer supports, and d is the deflection due to the load F applied at the middle of the beam, the flexural modulus:

From elastic beam theory 

and for rectangular beam 
 

thus   (Elastic modulus)

For very small strains in isotropic materials – like glass, metal or polymer  – flexural or bending modulus of elasticity is equivalent to the tensile modulus (Young's modulus) or compressive modulus of elasticity. However, in anisotropic materials, for example wood, these values may not be equivalent.  Moreover, composite materials like fiber-reinforced polymers or biological tissues are inhomogeneous combinations of two or more materials, each with different material properties, therefore their tensile, compressive, and flexural moduli usually are not equivalent.

Related pages 
 Stiffness

References

Materials science
Elasticity (physics)
Mervyn Victor Richardson. Mervyn Victor Richardson, (11 November 1893  – 31 December 1972) was an Australian inventor and industrialist. In 1952 he produced a rotary lawn mower that proved popular leading to the formation of the company Victa. He commercialised the mower with creation of Victa Consolidated Industries and later went on to extend the business to include the manufacture of the Victa Airtourer and Victa Aircruiser aircraft and project homes.

Early life 
Richardson was born in Yarramalong, New South Wales to Archibald George Heron Richardson, a school teacher from Ireland and his Australian-born wife Charlotte Martha Richardson, née Griffith.

He had many jobs, starting with an apprenticeship as a jeweller and later becoming a car salesman. He created New South Wales Motors Ltd selling Austin motor cars in 1928.

In 1916 he helped his brother Archibald and the staff at the NSW State Aviation School build an aeroplane named 'the Wasp'. His brother built the engine and he along with Harold Eagle, Leslie Hankie and Ted Sparks built the airframe.

In 1948 his son Gary was earning an income by cutting grass while studying at University. To help his son he created two lightweight lawn mowers using a Villiers engine on its side. These mowers proved successful and soon he began a business manufacturing and selling the mowers.

Victa

References

Richardson
1893 births
1972 deaths
20th-century Australian inventors
Australian aerospace engineers
Tunnel junction. In electronics, a tunnel junction is a barrier, such as a thin insulating layer or electric potential, between two electrically conducting materials. Electrons (or quasiparticles) pass through the barrier by the process of quantum tunnelling. Classically, the electron has zero probability of passing through the barrier. However, according to quantum mechanics, the electron has a non-zero wave amplitude in the barrier, and hence it has some probability of passing through the barrier. Tunnel junctions serve a variety of different purposes.

Multijunction photovoltaic cell
In multijunction photovoltaic cells, tunnel junctions form the connections between consecutive p-n junctions. They function as an ohmic electrical contact in the middle of a semiconductor device.

Magnetic tunnel junction
In magnetic tunnel junctions, electrons tunnel through a thin insulating barrier from one magnetic material to another. This can serve as a basis for a magnetic detector.

Superconducting tunnel junction
In superconducting tunnel junctions, two superconducting electrodes are separated by a non-superconducting barrier. Cooper pairs carry the supercurrent through the barrier by quantum tunneling, a phenomenon known as the Josephson effect. This setup can form the basis for extremely sensitive magnetometers, known as SQUIDs, as well as many other devices.

Tunnel diode
In tunnel diodes, a diode allows the tunneling of electrons for certain voltages. This allows them to be used for generating high-frequency signals.

Scanning tunneling microscope
In scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), the tip/air/substrate (metal-insulator-metal) can be viewed as a tunnel junction.

References

Quantum electronics
Electrodes
Mesoscopic physics
IEEE Transactions on Computers. IEEE Transactions on Computers is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of computer design. It was established in 1952 and is published by the IEEE Computer Society. The editor-in-chief is Ahmed Louri, David and Marilyn Karlgaard Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 3.131.

References

External links 
 

Transactions on Computers
Computer science journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1952
Monthly journals
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is presented annually to up to three persons, for outstanding achievements in information sciences, information systems and information technology. The recipients receive a gold medal, together with a replica in bronze, a certificate and an honorarium.

The award was established in 1986 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is sponsored by Qualcomm, Inc. It is named after Richard W. Hamming, whose work has had many implications for computer science and telecommunications.  His contributions include the invention of the Hamming code, and error-correcting code.

Recipients
The following people have received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal:

See also
 Richard W. Hamming
 List of computer science awards
 Prizes named after people

References 

Computer science awards
Information science awards
Awards established in 1986
Richard W. Hamming Medal
IEEE Medal of Honor. The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It has been awarded since 1917, and is presented to an individual or team of up to three who have made exceptional contributions or had extraordinary careers in technology, engineering, and science in the IEEE fields of interest. The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze replica (of the medal), a certificate, and a million honorarium.

The medal was created by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) as the "IRE Medal of Honor". It became the IEEE Medal of Honor when the IRE merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) to form the IEEE in 1963. It was decided that IRE's Medal of Honor would be presented as IEEE's highest award. Edward Field Sanford Jr., an American sculptor, designed the medal in 1917.

The first recipient was Edwin Howard Armstrong, in 1917. As of 2024, 104 people have been awarded the medal, with the latest recipient being Robert E. Kahn. Only one woman, Mildred Dresselhaus, has been awarded the medal, in 2015.

Recipients

See also 
 IET Faraday Medal
 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
 List of engineering awards

Notes

References

External links 
 

Academic awards
Awards established in 1917

Honor
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring "exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering" in the field of telecommunications.  The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for achievements in telecommunication sciences and engineering.

It was instituted in 1976 by the directors of IEEE, commemorating the centennial of the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. The award is presented either to an individual, or to a team of two or three persons.

The institute's reasoning for the award was described thus:

Recipients of the award receive a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and an honorarium.

Recipients
As listed by the IEEE:

1976 Amos E. Joel, Jr., William Keister, and Raymond W. Ketchledge
1977 Eberhardt Rechtin
1978 M. Robert Aaron, John S. Mayo, and Eric E. Sumner
1979 A. Christian Jacobaeus
1980 Richard R. Hough
1981 David Slepian
1982 Harold A. Rosen
1983 Stephen O. Rice
1984 Andrew J. Viterbi
1985 Charles K. Kao
1986 Bernard Widrow
1987 Joel S. Engel, Richard H. Frenkiel, and William C. Jakes, Jr.
1988 Robert M. Metcalfe
1989 Gerald R. Ash and Billy B. Oliver
1990 Paul Baran
1991 C. Chapin Cutler, John O. Limb, and Arun N. Netravali
1992 James L. Massey
1993 Donald C. Cox
1994 Hiroshi Inose
1995 Irwin M. Jacobs
1996 Tadahiro Sekimoto
1997 Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
1998 Richard E. Blahut
1999 David G. Messerschmitt
2000 Vladimir A. Kotelnikov

2002 Tsuneo Nakahara
2003 Joachim Hagenauer

2005 Jim K. Omura
2006 John Wozencraft
2007 Norman Abramson
2008 Gerard J. Foschini
2009 Robert McEliece
2010 John Cioffi
2011 Arogyaswami Paulraj
2012 Leonard Kleinrock
2013 Andrew Chraplyvy, Robert Tkach
2014 Dariush Divsalar
2015 Frank Kelly
2016 Roberto Padovani
2017 H. Vincent Poor
2018 Nambirajan Seshadri
2019 Teresa H. Meng
2020 Rajiv Laroia
2021 Nick McKeown
2022 Panganamala R. Kumar
2023 Erwin Hochmair, Ingeborg Hochmair
2025 Richard D. Gitlin

See also 

 Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes
 IEEE Medal of Honor
 IEEE awards
 World Communication Awards

References 

 

Alexander Graham Bell Medal
Alexander Graham Bell

Telecommunications engineering
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award. The IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award is a technical field award given to an individual by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for major contributions to standardization within the field of electrical and electronics engineering. This IEEE-level award, which honors Charles Proteus Steinmetz, was created in 1979 by the board of directors of the IEEE and sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association.

The award is given only to individual recipients (not groups or multiple individuals in a single year).

Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate, and an honorarium.

Recipients 
The following people have received the IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award:

 2025: Paul Nikolich
 2024: Gary R. Hoffman
 2023: Philip Wennblom
 2022: Kenneth E. Martin
 2021: Haran C. Karmaker
 2020: Solveig M. Ward
 2019: Innocent Kamwa
 2018: Craig M. Wellman
 2017: David John Law
 2016: Hermann Koch
 2015: Steven Mills
 2014: Mark Mcgranaghan
 2013: Mohindar Sachdev
 2012: Daleep C. Mohla
 2011: James W. Moore
 2010: Richard Deblasio
 2009: James Thomas Carlo
 2008: Roy Billinton
 2007: Vic Hayes
 2006: Steven Mark Halpin
 2005: Wallace S. Read
 2004: Julian Forster
 2003: Donald C. Loughry
 2002: Ben C. Johnson
 2001: Stanley Baron
 2000: Hiroshi Yasuda
 1999: Dennis Bodson
 1998: William J. McNutt
 1997: L. John Rankine
 1997: Donald N. Heirman
 1996: Marco W. Migliaro
 1995: L. Bruce McClung
 1994: Clayton H. Griffin
 1993: Ivan G. Easton
 1992: Donald C. Fleckenstein
 1991: Fletcher J. Buckley
 1990: Warren H. Cook
 1989: Joseph L. Koepfinger
 1988: No Award
 1987: Bruce B. Barrow
 1986: Chester H. Page
 1985: Charles L. Wagner
 1984: H. Baron Whitaker
 1983: William A. McAdams
 1982: Ralph M. Showers
 1981: No Award
 1980: Leon Podolsky

See also 
 Charles P. Steinmetz Memorial Lecture

References 

Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award