omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Buffalo Forge Company. The Buffalo Forge Company was formed in 1878 to manufacture blacksmith’s forges. Their product offerings were expanded to include drilling machines in 1883, and steam engines and pumps in 1889.

History
Brothers William F. Wendt and Henry Wendt founded Buffalo Forge Company in 1878 and started selling a portable blacksmith forge.

In 1903, the company absorbed all the plants of the George L. Squier Manufacturing Company. It did the same with the Buffalo Seam Pump Company in 1904.
In 1902, Willis Carrier, an engineer at Buffalo Forge, submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system. In 1915, he left the company to form Carrier Engineering Corporation.

The Buffalo Forge Company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1941.

The Wendt family retired from ownership of the company in 1981 after it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Ampco-Pittsburgh. The company was then sold to the Scotland-based Howard Group P.L.C. in 1993.

In 1997, Buffalo Machine Tools was created from the machine tool division of Buffalo Forge.

Other products
Heating equipment, dust collectors, and a range of metal cutting and forming equipment were also manufactured by the company. In addition to being one of the largest employers in the city of Buffalo (during its heyday), Buffalo Forge operated several other plants in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Wendt family retained ownership of the company until 1941, when the ownership was broadened by a public stock offering. Buffalo Forge was one of the "big three" that made blacksmith equipment in the United States. Champion and Canedy-Otto companies were the other domestic competition.

Mergers, acquisitions & significant events

References

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning companies
Manufacturing companies based in Buffalo, New York
Partially observable system. A partially observable system is one in which the entire state of the system is not fully visible to an external sensor.  In a partially observable system the observer may utilise a memory system in order to add information to the observer's understanding of the system.

An example of a partially observable system would be a card game in which some of the cards are discarded into a pile face down.  In this case the observer is only able to view their own cards and potentially those of the dealer.  They are not able to view the face-down (used) cards, nor the cards that will be dealt at some stage in the future.  A memory system can be used to remember the previously dealt cards that are now on the used pile. This adds to the total sum of knowledge that the observer can use to make decisions.

In contrast, a fully observable system would be that of chess. In chess (apart from the 'who is moving next' state, and minor subtleties such as whether a side has castled, which may not be clear) the full state of the system is observable at any point in time.

Partially observable is a term used in a variety of mathematical settings, including that of artificial intelligence and partially observable Markov decision processes.

References

Systems science
David J. Hudson. David James Hudson (December 16, 1943 – May 21, 2011) was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.

Selected filmography
 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
 Beauty and the Beast (1991)
 Aladdin (1992)

References

External links

 

1943 births
2011 deaths
American audio engineers
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Place of birth missing
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Queued Sequential Access Method. In IBM mainframe operating systems, Queued Sequential Access Method (QSAM) is an access method to read and write datasets sequentially. QSAM is available on OS/360, OS/VS2, MVS, z/OS, and related operating systems.

QSAM is used both for devices that are naturally sequential, such as punched card readers and punches and line printers, and for data on devices that could also be addressed directly, such as magnetic disks. QSAM offers device independence: to the extent possible, the same API calls are used for different devices.

QSAM is—as its name says—queued, in this specific context meaning buffered with deblocking of reads and blocking of writes. It allows programs to read and write logical records within physical blocks of data, as opposed to the less advanced basic sequential access method (BSAM) which allows programs to access physical blocks of data, but provides no support for accessing logical records within blocks.

QSAM manages truncated final blocks and truncated embedded blocks completely transparently to the user.

The QSAM application program interface can be compared with the interface offered by open, read, write and close calls (using file handles) in other operating systems such as Unix and Windows.

See also
Sequential access memory (SAM)
Basic sequential access method (BSAM)
Hierarchical sequential access method (HSAM)
Basic indexed sequential access method (BISAM)
Queued indexed sequential access method (QISAM)
Hierarchical indexed sequential access method (HISAM)

References

IBM mainframe operating systems
Inspectioneering Journal. Inspectioneering Journal is a technical publication that focuses on mechanical integrity and reliability issues in the chemical and refining industries. It is published bi-monthly. The magazine was established in 1995 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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External links
 

1995 establishments in Texas
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Engineering magazines
Magazines established in 1995
Magazines published in Houston
Petroleum magazines
Professional and trade magazines published in the United States
Wheelabrator Baltimore. Wheelabrator Baltimore, also known as WIN Waste Baltimore is a waste-to-energy incinerator located in the Westport neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, and is operated by Wheelabrator Technologies. It has an electric generation capacity of 64.5 megawatts. On October 2, 2018, ECP announced the agreement to sell Wheelabrator Technologies to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, a subsidiary of Macquarie Group.

Operation
In operation since 1985, the incinerator's tall white smokestack that reads "Baltimore" is considered to be a distinctive landmark for travelers on nearby Interstate 95 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.Formerly known as BRESCO (Baltimore Refuse Energy Systems Co.), the incinerator has been plagued by controversy over air pollution and operating with an expired air pollution permit. The ash produced at the incinerator is then used for the city's Quarantine Road landfill at Hawkins Point.

In 2010, several environmental groups, including the Washington, D.C.–based Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and Clean Water Action have successfully intervened in the Wheelabrator's permit-renewal process, which prompted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to order the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) to reinforce the plant's pollution-monitoring necessities.

According to a 2011 report by the EIP, the Wheelabrator Incinerator produces more mercury, lead, and greenhouse gases per hour of energy than each of the state's four largest coal-fired power plants. In addition, the incinerator produces nitrogen oxide emissions, which can contribute to smog and pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. EIP staff attorney Jennifer Peterson stated:

 In 2021, the Wheelabrator Incinerator was Baltimore's "single largest standing source of air pollution."

References

External links 
Wheelabrator Baltimore, L.P. waste-to-energy facility webpage
Environmentalists urge new permit for incinerator

Energy infrastructure completed in 1985
Towers completed in 1985
Buildings and structures in Baltimore
Waste power stations in the United States
Towers in Maryland
Westport, Baltimore
1985 establishments in Maryland
Ahmed Busnaina. Ahmed A. Busnaina is an American nanotechnologist who is the William Lincoln Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, and Director of National Science Foundation’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) for High-rate Nanomanufacturing and of the NSF Center for Microcontamination Control at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Busnaina is recognized for his work on nano and micro scale defects mitigation and removal in semiconductor fabrication. He specializes in directed assembly of nanoelements and in the nanomanufacturing of micro and nanoscale devices. Professor Busnaina authored the book Nanomanufacturing Handbook, published in 2006. He authored more than 500 publications in journals, proceedings and conferences.

He an associate editor of the Microelectronic Engineering Journal, and an associate editor of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. He also serves/served on many advisory boards including Samsung Electronics; Chemical Industry Nanomaterials Roadmap, the  International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, Journal of Particulate Science and Technology, Journal of Environmental Sciences Journal of the IEST, Journal of Advanced Applications in Contamination Control.

He is a fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Adhesion Society. He is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, , Who's Who in America, , Who's Who in science and engineering, , etc.). He is the 2020 ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award and Medal recipient,    2006 Nanotech Briefs National Nano50 Award recipient, Innovator category, the SØren Buus Outstanding Research Award, Northeastern University 2006, the 2005 Aspiration Award, Northeastern University.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American nanotechnologists
American mechanical engineers
Carlo Sutermeister. Karl Konrad "Carlo" Sutermeister (15 July 1847 - 12 December 1918) was a Swiss engineer and timber businessman, and co-founder of the Banco Popolare di Intra. In 1890 he constructed Italy's first hydropower plant with AC transmission in Cossogno.

References

Further reading
Vera Sutermeister Cassano. Carlo Sutermeister fra Intra e Val Grande. Verbania Intra: Alberti Libraio Editore, 1992.

External links
Approfondimento Ritratto di Carlo Sutermeister

1847 births
1918 deaths
Swiss engineers
Businesspeople in timber
Knowledge organization system. Knowledge organization system (KOS), concept system or concept scheme is the generic term used in knowledge organization for the selection of concepts with an indication of selected semantic relations. Despite their differences in type, coverage and application, all KOS aim to support the organization of knowledge and information to facilitate their management and retrieval. 

KOS can be represented in can be expressed in RDF and RDFS as per the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) recommendation by W3C, which aims to enable the sharing and linking of KOS via the Web.

Many lists of KOS exist with BARTOC being the largest and most general one.

Examples 
Examples of knowledge organization systems include:

 classification systems and schemes
 lists of subject headings
 authority files
 thesauri
 topic maps
 controlled vocabularies
 ontologies
 Simple Knowledge Organization System
 other systems of metadata

See also
Library and information science
Library classification

References

 Hodge, G. (2000). Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital libraries. Beyond traditional authority files. Washington, DC: the Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/contents.html
 Tudhope, D. & Lykke Nielsen, M. (2006). Introduction to special issue: Knowledge Organization Systems and Services. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 12(1), 3-9. http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/media/m35eac0c7l6wvk510nr7/contributions/r/0/7/7/r077564631920800.pdf
 Zeng, M. L. & Chan, L. M. (2004). Trends and issues in establishing interoperability among knowledge organization systems. Journal for the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(5), 377-395.
 Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services NKOS: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/

External links
 Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS)†
Knowledge management
Organization
Library science terminology
Information science
Controlled vocabularies
Chipilima Hydro Electric Project. Chipilima Hydro Electric Project (CHEP) is a hydropower plant located at Chipilima, Sambalpur, Odisha, India.

The Odisha government has plans for the modernisation of 5th and 6th unit of Burla Hydro Electric Project (BHEP) and 3rd unit of Chipilima Hydro Electric Project (CHEP) during the 11th five year plan tenure. which in effect lead to modernisation and renovation of the 1st and the 2nd unit of Chipilima Hydro-Electric Project (CHEP) has been completed lengthening the longevity of these two units. This project being a part of the other hydro electric projects of Odisha collectively contributed 5234 million unit in 2005–06, to 7354 million units in 2006–07, and to 7883 million units in 2008–09.

Location
It is situated at Chipilima, 32.2 km from Sambalpur on the National Highway 6. Nearest airport is Raipur, Chhattisgarh. (262 km)

Footnotes

References
Nayak, Ajit. Power struggle . August 4, 2011

Hydroelectric power stations in Odisha
Buildings and structures in Sambalpur district
Year of establishment missing
Richard Overton (sound engineer). Richard Overton is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on more than 60 films during his career.

Selected filmography
 Die Hard (1988)
 The Abyss (1989)
 The Hunt for Red October (1990)

References

External links

Year of birth missing
Possibly living people
American audio engineers
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Esdat. ESdat is environmental data management, analysis and reporting software for environmental and groundwater data, developed by Earth Science Information Systems (EScIS) of Australia. Data is imported from a range of systems or sources into a central environmental database, for comparison, analysis, and reporting, where it can be filtered and viewed in formats such as tables, graphs and maps.

ESdat is used by environmental consultants, government and industry for validation, interrogation and reporting of data derived from complex environmental programs, such as contaminated and industrial sites, groundwater investigations, landfill and regulatory compliance.

It is used to manage many types of environmental data including laboratory chemistry data (analytical results, QA data, lab sample planning and electronic Chain of Custody), field chemistry data (water, gas, soil), hydrogeological data (groundwater, borehole and well construction, lithological, geotechnical and stratigraphic, LNAPL), meteorological data (rain, wind, temperature), emission data (dust, HiVol, air quality, noise), logger data, surface water flows, and flora/fauna/pest/vegetation community data.

Data can be compared against environmental standards or site-specific trigger levels to generate exceedence tables and other outputs, such as time series graphs.

References

External links
 ESdat Information
 US EPA Database and Software
 Managing Site Data and the Maintenance of Conceptual Models

Environmental data
Earth sciences
Hermann Hammesfahr. Hermann Hammesfahr (February 20, 1845 – November 23, 1914) was a Prussian-American inventor who invented a type of fiberglass cloth in which glass was interwoven with silk. He was awarded the patent by the United States Patent Office in 1880. This was the earliest fiberglass of any kind that is known to have been patented.

Family origins 
Hammesfahr was born in Evangelisch, Flachsberg, Wald Solingen, Rhineland, Prussia and died in Brooklyn, New York—the son of Carl Wilhelm Hammesfahr (1811–1878) and Caroline Wilhelmine Remschied (1806–1878). The Hammesfahr family is an old Solingen steel family tracing its roots back to the medieval armorer's guild.

The "grandfather" of fiber optics 

This patent and a number of associated patents also provided the practical foundation for the development and production of fiber optics (Hammesfahr has been called “the grandfather of fiber optics”) and fiberglass. All were purchased by the Libbey Glass Company in Toledo, Ohio.

An immigrant from Prussia, he was known for his keen aesthetic achievements and technical innovations. Until recently, Hermann Hammesfahr and his contributions have been obscured, buried in scientific journals and first-hand historical accounts—and in many cases erroneously attributed to others, such as Edward Drummond Libbey, owner of Libbey Glass Company.

1893 Chicago World's Fair 
Libbey Glass purchased the fiberglass patent among others from Hammesfahr with the intention of displaying the fabric in a spectacular manner at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. At first, the company wove lamp shades from the glass fabric. Then it caught the eye of actress Georgia Cayvan who requested a dress be made from it. Hammesfahr designed a dress and the Libby Glass company showed it off at the Columbian Exposition.  The dress was a sensation. Thomas Edison’s electric light bulb also debuted at the fair, as well as the Ferris wheel; however contemporary accounts indicate it was the glass dress that attracted the attention of women across America.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87764690/marriage-of-hammesfahr-kse/

Flexible Glass Fabric 
Many onlookers were impressed by the dress at the 1893 World's Fair and a copy was purchased for $30,000 by Princess Eulalia of Spain. However, the dress was reportedly impractical and no one else is known to have bought another dress. Hammesfahr's granddaughter modeled a glass dress her mother had made at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and reported that the dress scratched and was fragile. Despite this, the dresses, neckties, and other attire made from the glass fabric succeeded in publicizing the flexible glass thread technology. Hammesfahr's creation inspired new, innovative uses for glass fabric. It could withstand corrosive chemicals so chemists and druggist used it to filter solid particles out of liquid. Tangled glass fibers - glass wool - made a great insulator and was used by industry to surround steam pipes. Glass fabric was even used as bandages.

References 

1845 births
1914 deaths
Prussian emigrants to the United States
19th-century American inventors
Glass applications
Demaco. Demaco was founded in 1914 making it the oldest pasta equipment manufacturer in the United States and the only one that makes industrial capacity machines in America. In the 1960s, Demaco pioneered the sanitary extruder for washdown food plants.

History
Originally located in Brooklyn, New York, the company moved its headquarters to Melbourne, Florida in 1998, which is where it is today. The company became Consolidated Macaroni Machine Corporation in 1926 and changed the name to Demaco in 1952.

In World War II, Consolidated made tooling for the Norden bombsight, Grumman aircraft fighter wings and Worthington pumps as part of the war effort. In the late 1930s, DEMACO introduced and patented an automated spaghetti spreader with a continuous drive and trim handling system. This innovation permitted the first continuous production of long pasta on a manufacturing line instead of making product in batches. DEMACO machines permitted all aspects of production in one machine, the first of its kind. It also permitted production of spaghetti without contact by human hands for a more sanitary process. Paramount Macaroni Company of Brooklyn, New York installed the first spaghetti spreader. Also in the 1940s and early 1950s, DEMACO made significant improvements to pasta dryer automation and control as well as sanitary design of equipment. In 1993, the company started a dryer manufacturing facility in Melbourne, Florida, and the remainder of the company moved there soon afterwards.

In 1983, the company received the New York Governors Award for Export Achievement.

Products
The company makes the Demaco extruder and dry, fresh and frozen pasta lines. The company exports its machines worldwide.

References

1914 establishments in New York (state)
American pasta companies
Companies based in Brevard County, Florida
Industrial machine manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Florida
Manufacturing companies established in 1914
Melbourne, Florida
Privately held companies based in Florida
Demaco extruder. The Demaco extruder is a pasta extruder built by Demaco in West Melbourne, Florida, United States. It is the first pasta extruder ever built for USDA sanitary food plants.  Its design allowed food producers to use an extruder directly in fresh, frozen and canning factories.

History
The extruder evolved from a mechanical pasta press first built in 1914. The mechanical version was replaced by a hydraulic version shortly thereafter. 

Containing an auger screw and mixer, the extruder combined the functions of mixing, kneading and extruding in one machine, operations that formerly required three machines. 

In the 1960s, the extruder underwent a series of changes that made it easy to sanitize and suitable for USDA food plants. These included a streamlined design with quick disassembly, and stainless steel construction with completely sealed welds. Demaco engineers also designed a premixer for the extruder, which received a U.S. patent in 1975. In the 1980s, the Demaco extruder became automated with PLC controls.

The DEMACO extruder is used to make a wide range of products, including pasta and cereal. Additionally, DEMACO extruders are used to make some snacks, such as crisps and pizza rolls.

Canned goods
An innovative use of the extruder was feeding a can-filling machine for canned products. Demaco extruders also feed ravioli machines to make canned ravioli products. The U.S. Chinese-food company Chun King used one for the production of egg rolls.

Notes

Machines
Pasta industry
Eberman 1930 Monoplane. The Eberman Monoplane was an original Anzani-powered aircraft design by Gus Eberman built in 1930.

Design and development
The Eberman Monoplane was built in Geneva, Illinois.

The Eberman Monoplane was a high-wing conventional landing gear-equipped aircraft with an open cockpit. The wings used fir spars with steel lift struts. The fuselage was all wood. The ailerons were controlled with a push-pull tube. The tail surfaces were welded steel tubing with aircraft fabric covering.

Operational history
The aircraft flew for 105 minutes total before its first engine failure. A 1928 Anzani engine was installed as a replacement which subsequently failed after 12 hours.

Specifications (Eberman 1930 Monoplane)

References

Homebuilt aircraft