omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Splash Island. Splash Island is an educational water park located at the Toronto Zoo, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It uses interactive exhibits to teach about the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, etc.); aquatic animals; water flow in rivers, lakes, and oceans; and more.

Exhibits teach evaporation, and how nature facilitates evaporation within plant life; and the three states-of-matter (solid, liquid, and gas), using polar bears and ice to show water in its solid state.

Water parks in Ontario
Buildings and structures in Toronto
Harris Wulfson. Harris Wulfson (18 July 1974 – 23 July 2008) was an American composer, instrumentalist and software engineer in Brooklyn, New York. His work employed algorithmic processes and gestural controllers to explore the boundary where humans encounter their machines.

He was involved in the creation of various custom software tools called Automatic Notation Generators (ANGs) developed to aid in the creation of algorithmic instrumental compositions. His writing on live generated music notation has been presented at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, and in August 2007, he spoke on the topic of ANGs at the International Computer Music Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

For the 2006 Look and Listen Festival in New York City, Wulfson presented his 'SensorBall,' a small electronic device, slightly larger than a baseball, with pressure-sensitive controls, all wired to a laptop computer and the results channeled through loudspeakers. When pressed and rotated, the ball produces sounds that erupt apparently without pattern.

Wulfson graduated from Amherst College and later received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His teachers included Stephen Mosko, Morton Subotnick, James Tenney, and Lew Spratlan.

Wulfson was also an accomplished violinist, accordionist, and mandolin player, an active performer of experimental music, and an avid folk musician. He was a member of the Object Collection ensemble and the Society of Automatic Music Notators, which initiated the LiveScore real-time music notation project, and has performed with the World on a String band, King Wilkie, Metropolitan Klezmer, Golem, and Margot Leverett.

In addition, Wulfson was a software engineer and web pioneer. He was the technical project manager at N2K Inc. from August, 1996 through March 1998. He built the bulletin board for jazzcentralstation.com and was the creator of "The Empty Chair."

On July 23, 2008, he died by suicide. In December 2008, Scrapple Records issued a recording of Jeremy Woodruff's Tunebook A as realized by the AB Duo (Seth Meicht and Jeremy Woodruff on saxophones and flute), a work dedicated to Wulfson.

References

External links
Samples of Wulfson's compositions

1974 births
2008 suicides
2008 deaths
American accordionists
American male composers
Amherst College alumni
California Institute of the Arts alumni
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
Miles M.2 Hawk Trainer. The Miles Hawk Trainer was a 1930s British two-seat training monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

Design and development
The Miles Hawk Trainer was developed from the Hawk Major to meet a requirement to supplement the de Havilland Tiger Moth in the training role. The aircraft had dual controls, blind flying equipment and vacuum operated flaps.

Based on the attributes of the Trainer, the Air Ministry issued Specification T.40/36, which led directly to the Miles Magister.

Variants
M.2W Hawk Trainer
Initial production version powered by a de Havilland Gipsy Major engine, four built.
M.2X Hawk Trainer
Improved version with a larger horn-balanced rudder, nine built.
M.2Y Hawk Trainer
M.2X with minor changes, 13 built.
Note that Hawk Trainer Mk II and Mk III were variants of the Miles Magister.

Operators

Royal Romanian Air Force

Royal Air Force

Spanish Republican Air Force

Survivors
M.2W registered G-ADWT is still flyable and based in England

Specifications (M.2W)

See also

References

 Amos, Peter. and Brown, Don Lambert. Miles Aircraft Since 1925, Volume 1. London: Putnam Aeronautical, 2000. .  
 Brown, Don Lambert. Miles Aircraft Since 1925. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1970. . 

 

1930s British military trainer aircraft
Hawk Trainer
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1935
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Miles Satyr. The Miles M.1 Satyr was a 1930s British single-seat aerobatic biplane designed by F.G. Miles and built for him by George Parnall and Company.

Design and development
The Satyr  was designed in 1932 by F.G. Miles. It was a wooden single-seat aerobatic biplane powered by a 75 hp Pobjoy R engine. The aircraft (registered G-ABVG) first flew in August 1932. Although the aircraft flew well Miles decided to concentrate on monoplane designs and only one was built. The only Satyr crashed in September 1936.

Specifications (M.1)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Amos, Peter. and Brown, Don Lambert. Miles Aircraft Since 1925. London: Putnam Aeronautical, 2000. .  
 
 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). Orbis Publishing.
 

1930s British sport aircraft
Satyr
Aerobatic aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1932
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Richard Mansell. Richard Christopher Mansell (October 1813 in Liverpool – 25 May 1904 in Long Marton, Westmorland) was an English railway engineer.

Mansell was carriage superintendent for the South Eastern Railway at Ashford by 1851, and later works manager for the SER. In 1877 he succeeded Alfred Mellor Watkin as locomotive superintendent of the SER. When James Stirling was appointed in 1878, Mansell resumed the post of works manager until his retirement from the SER in January 1882. On leaving, he was given an annual consultancy fee/pension of fifty guineas.

Carriages
R. C. Mansell was the inventor of the Mansell wheel, a composite wood and metal carriage wheel, for which he obtained patents in 1848, 1862 and 1866.
 
Use of this design in preference to other methods of affixing tyres to wheels was often indicated following tyre and/or wheel incidents resulting in accidents by investigating officers of the Board of Trade, most notably following the accidents at Hatfield on the Great Northern Railway on Boxing Day (26 Dec) 1870 and Skipton-on-Cherwell on the Great Western Railway on Christmas Eve 1874.

By 1874 there were over 20,000 sets of Mansell wheels in use.

Locomotives
As locomotive superintendent, Mansell designed twelve locomotives: 9 0-4-4T in 1878 and 3 0-6-0 in 1879 (7 others were cancelled). Three 0-6-0Ts that had been designed by Cudworth were also completed under Mansell's supervision in 1877. None of his engines had a distinguished service life. The tank engines lasted about 12 years, and the 0-6-0s about twice as long.

Family
Richard Christopher Mansell was the second of five children born to John Mansell, a Customs House Officer in Liverpool, and his wife Margaret Rothwell.  Richard married twice.

He married his first wife, Elizabeth Birchall Norris, 1816 Liverpool - March 1873 Ashford, Kent (died aged 56) at Edge Hill, Liverpool St Mary in 1836. They had three children: Margaret, James Thomas and James Rothwell.

He married his second wife, Emmeline Aldgate Clark, 29 August 1833, St. Pancras, London - 29 August 1912, Long Marton, Westmorland at Camden Haverstock Hill Holy Trinity on 14 April 1874.  They had two children: Albert and Emmeline.

See also
 Locomotives of the Southern Railway (UK)

References

 
 
 UK Census Returns
 Records of the Registrar for Births, Deaths & Marriages

 

1813 births
1904 deaths
Locomotive builders and designers
English railway mechanical engineers
Engineers from Liverpool
South Eastern and Chatham Railway people
Technical management. In general, technical management is the systematic efforts used in the deployment of a system or process and in balancing its cost, effectiveness and supportability during its life cycle.

Technical managers can be found at the interface of application and technique; they act between the user and the technical means. Examples of technical management are: ICT management, real estate management, financial management, quality management. Often the managed field is a resource of the organisation. Technical managers combine technical and management knowledge for the benefit of the user.

In logistics, technical management involves the duties a shipping company must perform for the technical operation of a vessel. This involves management related to crew management with related tasks, logistics related to operations as well as operations, service and maintenance. Often technical management is performed by the ship owning company, but not always. Technical management is sometimes performed by separate companies than the commercial management, that involves chartering of the vessels and the financial aspects that is performed by the owner company.

References

 

Ship management
RoboCup Small Size League. The RoboCup Small Size League (SSL) is a RoboCup soccer league.

Old format 
Two teams of six robots which are limited to an 18 cm diameter and 15 cm height play soccer with an orange golf ball. They are identified and tracked by four overhead cameras connected to an off-field computer. The field size is 9metersx6meters. Then robots' and balls' status including their position and id are sent to teams' computers. Their AI software sends commands to the robots based on the vision data.

New format 
As of 2018, there are now two divisions, the B division that continued to use the same parameters as before (6 robots, 9x6 meter field, etc) and the A division that changed a lot of parameters. This change was brought to improve the tournament experience by making the more experienced teams face each other while letting the newer teams improve their algorithms with more balanced face offs.

Division A new parameters 
 A software referee now calls automatically the penalties and a human referee only supervises the calls and corrects them if need be.
 Robots are fully autonomous, they have to place the ball where the auto referee commands (when the ball leaves the field for example)
 Field is now 12x9 meters.
 Games oppose 2 teams of 11 robots. (Prior to 2021 it was 8 vs. 8)

Small Size teams

References

External links
 
 RoboCup RuleBook

RoboCup
Robot soccer competitions
Riker Electric Vehicle Company. The Riker was a veteran and brass era electric car founded in 1898  in Elizabeth, New Jersey.  Designed by Andrew L. Riker, they were built in small numbers until the company was absorbed by the Electric Vehicle Company in 1901.

History 
Andrew Riker built his first vehicle in 1887. It was an English Coventry tricycle with electric power.  He founded the Riker Electric Motor Company in Brooklyn in 1888.  In 1894 he built his first four-wheel car by putting a pair of Remington bicycles together with electric power added. That year he also began building an electric racer which competed against gasoline cars at the 1896 Narragansett Park race in Rhode Island.

Scientific American reported the Riker Electric Motor Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., as the winner of the horseless carriage race, the prize being $900. The fastest mile was made by the Riker, "the time being 2:13." This was the first automobile race done around a track in the United States.

Riker made his first sale in 1897. From that time a variety of electric vehicles bore the Riker name including runabouts, Victorias, surreys, hansom cabs and heavy trucks.  In December 1900 he merged his company with the Electric Vehicle Company and only trucks were built under the Riker name afterwards.

In 1901 as Riker Motor Vehicle Company, he designed an 8-hp 2-cylinder gasoline car, and a 16-hp 4-cylinder car which he offered to the Electric Vehicle Company, but they declined it. He partnered with the Overman Company to produce the gasoline cars in Chicopee Falls.  Overman merged with Locomobile Company of America and in 1903 these became the first gasoline automobiles offered by Locomobile.

Andrew Riker became a vice-president for Locomobile and was the first president of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

See also
History of the electric vehicle

External links
A.L. Riker Photos and articles about the early years of the Riker Electric Vehicles

References 

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
History of Elizabeth, New Jersey
Companies based in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in New Jersey
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1898
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1901
Defunct manufacturing companies based in New Jersey
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Electric vehicles introduced in the 19th century
Electric vehicles introduced in the 20th century
Veteran vehicles
1890s cars
1900s cars
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Cars discontinued in 1901
Breda Ba.39. The Breda Ba.39, a touring and liaison aircraft designed and built in Italy, was a scaled-up version of the Breda Ba.33, achieving some success in sporting events, and distance flights.

Operational history
The Italian air ministry ordered 60 Ba.39s, one of which was flown on a circuit of the Mediterranean Sea by Folonari and Malinverni, starting and finishing at Turin.

Paraguay
One Ba.39 was registered in Paraguay as ZP-PAA in early 1940, owned by Elías Navarro and Antonio Soljancic. Powered by a Colombo S.63 engine, it was used for express flights by a company called Navarro Expreso Aéreo. In October, 1940, this plane was destroyed in an accident near São Paulo, Brazil.

Variants

Ba.39
The standard two-seat touring and liaison aircraft
Ba.39S
Tandem three-seat touring, communications aircraft introduced in 1934.
Ba.39 Met

Ba.39 Col

Ba.42
In 1934 the Ba.42 was introduced powered by a  Fiat A.70S radial engine, with a NACA cowling.

Operators

Regia Aeronautica
Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force

Specifications (Ba.39)

See also

References

 
 Sapienza Fracchia, Antonio Luis: "La Contribución Italiana en la Aviación Paraguaya". Author's edition. Asunción, 2007. 300pp.

External links

Ba.039
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1932
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Arthur David Hall III. Arthur David Hall III (April 13, 1924 – March 31, 2006) was an American electrical engineer and a pioneer in the field of systems engineering. He was the author of a widely used engineering textbook A Methodology for Systems Engineering from 1962.

Early life 
Hall was born on April 13, 1924, in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended Brookville High School. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war he studied electrical engineering at Princeton University, graduating in 1949.

Career 
He started his career as electrical engineer for Bell Labs, where he worked for many years. In the 1950s he started his own consulting business, and in the 1960s, Hall was faculty member at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is known as the author of a widely used engineering textbook A Methodology for Systems Engineering from 1962.

Hall was a founding member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 1965, Hall was the first editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics. Hall later became a senior IEEE fellow for contributions to systems engineering methodology, and applications to telecommunications policy and practice in the year 2000. He made contributions to systems engineering methodology, and applications to telecommunications policy and practice. Hall is listed in Who's Who Men of Science as the father of the "picture telephone", and creator of the patented "Auto Farm System", which provides global positioning equipment for precision farming. His further hobbies included flying, yachting, photography, and gardening.

Later life 
He died on March 31, 2006, in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Publications 
Hall wrote several textbooks and articles on systems and systems engineering. Books:
 1962, A Methodology for Systems Engineering.
 1989, Metasystems Methodology, Oxford, England: Pergamon Press.

Articles, a selection:
 1956, "Definition of System", with Robert E. Fagen, in: General Systems, 1 (1956), p. 18.
 1965, "Systems Engineering from an Engineering Viewpoint" in: IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics, Nov. 1965, Volume: 1, Issue: 1. On page(s): 4-8
 1969, "Three-Dimensional Morphology of Systems Engineering", in: IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics. 5(2) pp. 156–160.
 1975, "Who Is Afraid of Systems Methodology?", in: IEEE: Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Newsletter 4, 1 (March 1975) pp. 1–3.
 1989, "The fractal architecture of the systems engineering method", in: Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on Volume 28, Issue 4, Nov 1998 Page(s):565 - 572.

References

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1924 births
2006 deaths
People from Fredericksburg, Virginia
American systems scientists
Systems engineers
Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Scientists from Virginia
Solomon Grobshtein. Solomon R. (Romanovich or Reuvenovich) Grobshtein was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. He became a prominent Soviet scientist, and one of the founders and organizers of the Azeri oil industry.

Solomon was head of the engineering control board in Azerbaijan, authored scientific books and was credited with several inventions, including the Flow Control Valve for Oil and Gas Wells (United States Patent US3332438, published on July 25, 1967) invented by him and his team, which included Abdullaev Asker Alekper Ogly, Alizade Fuad Agasamedovich, Aslanov Mukhtar Makhmud Ogly, Vodovzov Genrikh Zalmanovich, and Ragimova Elmira Mamed Kyzy, at the Nauchno-Issledovatelsky i Proektny Institute.
 
In 1951, he, and the team led by A. K. Aliyev, were awarded the State Premium for achievements in exploration, drilling, production, exploitation, construction of offshore oil wells.

From 1950-54, Solomon Romanovich Grobshtein was elected to the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR.

Solomon was the brother of Borys Grobshtein (Dov Gazit).

References 
 Neft Dashlary 
 NEFTEKHIMAVTOMAT Seminars on Applications of radioisotope devices and methods in the industry of Azerbaidjan
 Flow control valve for oil and gas wells 

Azerbaijani engineers
Soviet politicians
Azerbaijani Jews
Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920) politicians
Possibly living people
Year of birth missing
Doe Triple-D. The Doe Triple-D or Doe Dual Drive is a make of tractor  produced by Ernest Doe & Sons in the 1950s and 1960s in Ulting Essex. Its two engines and 90-degree articulation made it one of the most unorthodox tractors ever built.

Development

During the 1950s farmers in the United Kingdom in need of high-power tractors had few options. Essex farmer George Pryor developed an ingenious solution to the problem by creating his own tractor. He did this by purchasing two Fordson tractors, removing the front wheels and axles and linking the two by means of a turntable which provided the steering action powered by hydraulic rams. This left him with a double-engined four-wheel—drive tractor capable of producing more power and outperforming any of the conventional tractors on the UK market at the time.

Commercial production

Local Fordson dealers Ernest Doe & Sons agreed to build an improved version, the first one was completed in 1958 and called the Doe Dual Power, later changed to Doe Dual Drive and abbreviated to Triple-D.

The first Doe Triple-D used two Fordson Power Major units producing , the later Triple-D 130 used two Ford 5000 tractors increasing the power output to over  and the Triple-D 150 was based on Ford Force 5000 tractors producing .

The vast majority of Triple-Ds were sold in the UK, but a number were exported to the United States and elsewhere.

Disadvantages

The main disadvantage with the Triple-D was the lack of suitable implements for such a powerful tractor, this meant that Ernest Doe & Sons also had to develop and build a range of implements to sell with the tractors.

Other disadvantages stemmed from the use of two engines, this made controlling the tractor more difficult because of the need for two gearboxes. There were two engines and gearboxes to maintain and repair and the probability of breakdowns was increased.

End of production

By the late 1960s several companies had developed single-engined tractors capable of producing over , this competition and the need for Doe to develop and test a approved safety rollover cab put the Doe out of production after over 300 had been built.

Legacy

The Triple-D often makes appearances at agricultural fairs such as the Epworth Festival of the Plough in Epworth, Lincolnshire and LeSueur, Minnesota Pioneer Power Days show where it is always a crowd favourite, popular due to its unorthodox build.

Triple-Ds are worth a great deal due to their relative rarity, even unrestored Does can demand extremely high prices at auction.

The Triple-D is also available in a 1:16 Scale model produced by Universal Hobbies

References

External links

Ernest Doe homepage
Tractorshed profile
YouTube footage of Does ploughing at Epworth

Tractors
Gary Starkweather. Gary Keith Starkweather (January 9, 1938 – December 26, 2019) was an American engineer who invented the laser printer and color management.

Starkweather received a B.S. in physics from Michigan State University in 1960 and an M.S. in optics from the University of Rochester in 1966. In 1969, Starkweather invented the laser printer at the Xerox Webster Research Center. He collaborated on the first fully functional laser-printing system at Xerox PARC in 1971.

At Apple Computer in the 1990s, Starkweather invented color management technology and led the development of Colorsync 1.0. In 1991, he was awarded the David Richardson Medal. Starkweather joined Microsoft Research in 1997, where he worked on display technology.

Starkweather also made major contributions to digital matte film techniques. He was a consultant on the digital effects team for Star Wars (1977). He won a technical Academy Award in 1994 for his pioneering work with Lucasfilm (and later, Pixar) in the field of color film scanning. 

In 2004, he was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. He retired in 2005. Starkweather died on December 26, 2019, at the age of 81.

References

External links
Bio at University of Washington
A Christian in Silicon Valley: An Interview with Gary Starkweather

Apple Inc. employees
Color scientists
Michigan State University alumni
Microsoft employees
University of Rochester alumni
Scientists at PARC (company)
1938 births
2019 deaths
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
People from Palo Alto, California