omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
WS-Discovery. Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery) is a technical specification that defines a multicast discovery protocol to locate services on a local network. It operates over TCP and UDP port 3702 and uses IP multicast address  or . As the name suggests, the actual communication between nodes is done using web services standards, notably SOAP-over-UDP.

Various components in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system use WS-Discovery, e.g. "People near me". The component WSDMON in Windows 7 and later uses WS-Discovery to automatically discover WSD-enabled network printers, which show in Network in Windows Explorer, and can be installed by double-clicking on them. In Windows 8 or later installation is automatic. WS-Discovery is enabled by default in networked HP printers since 2008. WS-Discovery is an integral part of Windows Rally technologies and Devices Profile for Web Services.

The protocol was originally developed by BEA Systems, Canon, Intel, Microsoft, and WebMethods. On July 1, 2009 it was approved as a standard by OASIS.

See also

 Avahi
 Bonjour
 DHCP
 Jini
 List of Web service specifications
 LLMNR
 OSGi Alliance
 SSDP
 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
 Web Services Discovery
 Web Services for Devices
 Zero-configuration networking (Zeroconf)

References

External links
Where to find Web Services on the Web
WS-Discovery specification version 1.0 (2005/04)
WS-Discovery specification version 1.1 Draft (2008/09)
WS-Discovery specification version 1.1 Final (2009/01)

Windows communication and services
Web service specifications
Web services
XML-based standards
Alexander Eaglerock. The Alexander Eaglerock was a biplane produced in the United States in the 1920s by Alexander Aircraft Company of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

It was a fixed-gear three-seater, and was offered in two models, one with a Hispano-Suiza "A" engine of , priced at US$4000, and one with a Wright J-5 Whirlwind, priced at $6500. The Eaglerock was also available fitted with a variety of other engines, of up to , with prices starting at $2250.

Surviving aircraft

 122 – Model 24 Long Wing on static display at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. It is on loan from the Colorado Aviation Historical Society and was previously on display at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum.
 469 – Combo-wing on static display at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington. It is on loan from the Museum of Flight.
 526 – Long Wing airworthy at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon.
 928 – A-2 on static display at the Science Spectrum in Lubbock, Texas.
 977 – Model A-14 is on static display in Concourse B of Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado. It was restored over a 25-year period by the Antique Airplane Association of Colorado.
 On static display at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver, Colorado.

Specifications (Eaglerock A-1)

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era 
(Partial listing, only covers most numerous types)

American Eagle A-101
Brunner-Winkle Bird
Buhl-Verville CA-3 Airster
Command-Aire 3C3
Parks P-1
Pitcairn Mailwing
Spartan C3
Stearman C2 and C3
Swallow New Swallow
Travel Air 2000 and 4000
Waco 10

Related lists 

 List of aircraft
 List of civil aircraft

References

Citations

Bibliography

Biplanes
Tin foil. Tin foil, also spelled tinfoil, is a thin foil made of tin. Tin foil was superseded after World War II by cheaper and more durable aluminium foil, which is still referred to as "tin foil" in many regions (an example of a misnomer).

History 

Foil made from a thin leaf of tin was commercially available before its aluminum counterpart. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, tin foil was in common use, and some people continue to refer to the new product by the name of the old one. Tin foil is stiffer than aluminum foil. It tends to give a slight tin taste to food wrapped in it, which is a major reason it has largely been replaced by aluminum and other materials for wrapping food.

Because of its corrosion resistance, oxidation resistance, availability, low cost, low toxicity, and slight malleability, tin foil was used as a filling for tooth cavities prior to the 20th century.

The first audio recordings on phonograph cylinders were made on tin foil.

See also 
 Tin foil hat
 Misnomer#Examples

References 

Tin
Metallic objects
Carles Solà. Carles Solà (born in Xàtiva, Valencia Province on 1 January 1945) is a Spanish former politician.

He awarded a PhD degree in Chemistry at the UV, he has carried out research in Biochemical Engineering with 130 publications, having tutored 22 doctoral theses and directed various research projects. He was Rector of the UAB (1994–2002). He was a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the UAB.

President of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (1996–1998). Member of the Executive Committee for the International Association of University Presidents (2000–2002). Member of the Board of the European University Association (2001–2005). Member of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Society of Biotechnology (2002–2006). Doctor Honoris Causa in Science from the University of Southampton (1999). Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Member of ACPV. Member of the IEC.

References

1945 births
Living people
People from Xàtiva
Spanish biochemists
University of Valencia alumni
Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies
Jerre Noe. Jerre Noe (February 1, 1923 – November 12, 2005) was an American computer scientist. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. In 1968 he became the first chair of the University of Washington's Computer Science Group, which later evolved into the Computer Science and Engineering Department.

Early life and education
Noe was born in McCloud, California. He received a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Stationed in Europe during World War II, he conducted research and development related to radar, before returning to California to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University.

Career
During the 1950s, Noe served as the assistant director of Engineering at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), during which time he led the technical team for the Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting (ERMA) project. Noe and the ERMA team were honored by SRI in 2001 with the Weldon B. Gibson Achievement Award for their work.

In 1968 he was recruited by the University of Washington to chair its newly founded Computer Science Group, a role in which he continued until 1976. Initially, this was mainly a graduate department but in 1975 it introduced a baccalaureate program. In the early 1980s, Noe directed the Eden Project, the first recipient of the National Science Foundation's Coordinated Experimental Research Program award, which brought U.W. into the first rank of Computer Science departments.

Retirement
After retirement from the department in 1989, Noe continued a very active life until 2005. He remained active in his department as a professor emeritus and in other aspects of his life; in his late seventies, he and his wife trekked approximately 100 miles (160 km) across the Basque Country. He was also an avid flautist, sailor and skier into his eighties.

Personal life 

Jerre Noe married Mary Ward in 1943. They had three children: Sherill, Jeffrey and Russell. Mary Noe died of cancer in 1982. Jerre married Margarete Wöhlert in 1983.

On November 12, 2005, Noe died from peritoneal mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos that attacks the lining of the abdomen. He was 82 years old.

References

External links
 Obituary in The New York Times
 Jerre Noe at legacy.com

1923 births
2005 deaths
American computer scientists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Washington faculty
Deaths from mesothelioma
SRI International people
Shattuckite. Shattuckite is a copper silicate hydroxide mineral with formula Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic – dipyramidal crystal system and usually occurs in a granular massive form and also as fibrous acicular crystals.  It is closely allied to plancheite in structure and appearance.

Shattuckite is a relatively rare copper silicate mineral. It was first discovered in 1915 in the copper mines of Bisbee, Arizona, specifically the Shattuck Mine (hence the name). It is a secondary mineral that forms from the alteration of other secondary minerals. At the Shattuck Mine, it forms pseudomorphs after malachite. A pseudomorph is an atom by atom replacement of a crystal structure by another crystal structure, but with little alteration of the outward shape of the original crystal. It is sometimes used as a gemstone.

Gallery

References

Copper(II) minerals
Inosilicates
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 61
Gemstones
Steacyite. Steacyite is a complex silicate mineral containing thorium and uranium; formula . It forms small brown or yellow green crystals, often cruciform twinned crystals.  It is radioactive. It was discovered at Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec in 1982 and is named after Harold Robert Steacy (1923–2012), mineralogist.

References

Notes

Sources 
 Handbook of Mineralogy
 mindat page for steacyite

See also
List of minerals
List of minerals named after people

Calcium minerals
Thorium minerals
Uranium minerals
Cyclosilicates
Tetragonal minerals
Minerals in space group 124
Scottish Gliding Union. The Scottish Gliding Union (also known as the Scottish Gliding Centre) is the largest gliding club in Scotland.  The body is based at Portmoak Airfield, Scotlandwell, KY13 9JJ.

Aircraft
The Scottish Gliding Union's fleet currently consists of:

 2 Aeropro Eurofox tug aircraft (G-OSGU and G-OSGC)
 3 Schleicher ASK 21 training gliders (G-CLOV “LOV,” G-OWAI “WA1” and “HPV”)
 3 SZD-51 Junior single-seat gliders (“HHD,” “FFY” and “FUS”)
 1 Allstar SZD-54 Perkoz glider (“LZS”)

Accidents

Tug aircraft overturned during landing
On 21 December 2020, G-OSGC, an Aeropro Eurofox tug aircraft operated by the Scottish Gliding Union was overturned during landing after providing its 5th aerotow of the day.

The aircraft was reportedly overturned due to soft terrain which caused it to “rapidly decelerate” before becoming inverted.

There were no injuries and the aircraft has returned to service.

Glider crash during winch launch 
On 4 September 2012, a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-3 glider, G-EENN, piloted by a 49-year-old off-duty air traffic controller crashed at Portmoak Airfield during a winch-launch after the pilot did not release the launch cable during a “wing-drop”.

After the aircraft's wing touched the ground, the aircraft cartwheeled down the airfield, fatally injuring the pilot.

The British Gliding Association advises that pilots should immediately release from the launch cable if they cannot keep their aircraft's wings level.

References

External links
Scottish Gliding Centre
Scottish Gliding Union Ltd - Young Persons Protection Policy

Sports venues in Scotland
Gliding in Scotland
Perth and Kinross
Sports organisations of Scotland
Universal Hero. Universal Hero is an action-adventure game released by Mastertronic in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum and in 1987 for the Atari 8-bit computers. The Spectrum version was developed by Stuart Middleton working under the name of Xcel Software. The Atari 8-bit port was commissioned by Mastertronic from a third-party developer.

Gameplay

Taking the part of Burt, the "Universal Hero", the player must repair a space shuttle in order to make their way to a planet where they can pick up the spare parts needed to mend a space freighter which is out of control and on-course to destroy both Burt and his chances of returning to Earth. The player explores a flip-screen environment, avoiding enemies and solving simple puzzles by finding objects that need to be used in the correct locations to proceed.

A bug in the Atari 8-bit version password screen makes the game impossible to complete.

Reception 

A reviewer for Computer+Video Games wrote, in October 1987, "Arcade adventures must be the second most popular type of game, after shoot'em ups, and this budget title offers most of the features you could wish for, including odd objects to collect and strength sapping aliens to avoid."

Sinclair User commented, "It's getting very difficult to find exciting ways of describing games which essentially repeat the same formula over and over again," but also "Hero is considerably better than most of the competition."

References

External links

1986 video games
Action-adventure games
Atari 8-bit computer games
Mastertronic games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Lew (locomotive). Lew was a Manning Wardle 2-6-2T built in 1925 for the narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.

History
Lew, following L&B tradition, was named after one of the local rivers with a three-letter name, the River Lew.

Lew was built to the same design as the previous L&B Manning Wardle locomotives, but with a redesigned cab to eliminate a smoke trap and give more room to the crew. After the railway closed, the remaining L&B equipment was sold at auction in November 1935. The nameplates, along with the nameplates of the other locomotives, were removed and donated to York Railway Museum (the predecessor of the National Railway Museum). Lew was purchased to work the trains dismantling the railway, and was used for this purpose until late summer 1936.

In September 1936, Lew was photographed with the words "A.L.C. Pernambuco Lot 1 Kilos 22353" painted on the front of its tank, believed to refer to the purchaser, a plantation in Brazil. On 28 September 1936, Lew sailed from Swansea, on the . Sabor arrived in Pernambuco on 15 October 1936. Sabor left Pernambuco on 17 October, called at Bahia on 20 October, and arrived in Rio de Janeiro on 23 October.

Lyd

A replica of Lew, named Lyd in accordance with the L&B tradition of naming its locos after local three-letter rivers, was completed at Boston Lodge on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway in August 2010.

References

External links
Lyd project at the Ffestiniog Railway
Mystery of Lew

Lynton and Barnstaple Railway locomotives
2-6-2T locomotives
Manning Wardle locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1925
Individual locomotives of Great Britain
Narrow gauge locomotives of the United Kingdom

de:L&B – Yeo, Exe, Taw und Lew
General Electric F118. The General Electric F118 is a non-afterburning turbofan engine produced by GE Aviation, and is derived from the General Electric F110 afterburning turbofan.

Design and development

The F118 is a non-afterburning derivative of the F110 specially developed for the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. A single stage HP turbine drives the 9 stage HP compressor, while a 2-stage LP turbine drives the 3 stage fan. The combustor is annular. In 1998, the USAF's Lockheed U-2S fleet was fitted with a modified version of the F118.

Variants
F118-GE-100
Variant for the B-2
F118-GE-101
Variant for the U-2S

Applications
 Lockheed U-2S
 Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit

Specifications (F118-100)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

 GE Aviation Military Engines page

Low-bypass turbofan engines
F118
1980s turbofan engines
De Havilland Engine Company. The de Havilland Engine Company was an offshoot of the de Havilland aircraft building company, which started life as the 'Engine Division of the de Havilland Aircraft Company' in 1926 producing the famous de Havilland Gipsy aero-engine. The company was merged with Bristol Siddeley (BSEL) engines in 1961 with BSEL subsequently becoming part of Rolls-Royce Limited in 1966.

History
The company was officially formed at Stag Lane in February 1944 and later moved into a factory leased by the government in 1946 at Leavesden, which had earlier been a site for Handley Page Halifax production. This is now the location of Leavesden Film Studios.

It went on to produce one of the early turbojet engines the de Havilland Goblin which saw service in the early post-war de Havilland Vampire fighter.
The later Ghost turbojet propelled early versions of the de Havilland Comet jetliner and the de Havilland Venom fighter.

The company later developed the de Havilland Gnome turboshaft under licence from the General Electric T58 design, but the company was absorbed into Bristol Siddeley Engines Limited (BSEL) in 1961; Bristol Siddeley itself subsequently merged with Rolls-Royce Limited in 1966 and the merged company continued with the "Rolls-Royce" name.

Engines

Piston engines

de Havilland Ghost
de Havilland Gipsy
de Havilland Gipsy Minor
de Havilland Gipsy Major
de Havilland Gipsy Six
de Havilland Gipsy Queen
de Havilland Gipsy Twelve
de Havilland Gipsy King

Turbojets
de Havilland Ghost
de Havilland Goblin
de Havilland Gyron
de Havilland Gyron Junior

Turboshafts
de Havilland Gnome
Rolls-Royce Gem

Rocket engines
de Havilland Sprite
de Havilland Super Sprite
de Havilland Spectre

See also

References

 Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. 
 Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

External links

British Jet Engine Website
 History of de Havilland

 
Aircraft industry in London
Companies based in Watford
De Havilland
de Havilland Engine Company
Rocket engine manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Battery Manufacturing Association. Battery Manufacturing Association (BMA) was a British company located in Hove. In 1952 the company entered the microcar arena with the B.M.A. Hazelcar. It was styled as a roadster with aluminium bodywork. It was powered by a 1.5 hp electric engine fed by nine six-volt batteries giving it a top speed of  and a range of up to . The price of £535 meant that few were sold. Production ended in 1954.
They made approx 25 vehicles which included some electric vans.

Hazelcar
In 1949 two brothers, Eric and Roy Hazeldine, had set up a garage business in Telscombe Cliffs and Rottingdean Sussex, where they designed and built the little Hazelcar. The initial idea was to design a car that would do  and 50 miles to the gallon (5.6 L/100 km). With its transverse four cylinder engine with an end on gearbox (although mounted in the rear) and little wheels, it was the forerunner of the Mini. A petrol version of this type is currently on show in the Bentley Motor Museum in Sussex. They then joined forces with BMA.

External links
Hazelcar website

Microcars
Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Hove
Studebaker Electric. The Studebaker Electric was a car manufactured by the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company of South Bend, Indiana, a forerunner of the Studebaker Corporation.  The battery-powered cars were sold from 1902 to 1912.

Studebaker entered into the automobile manufacturing field in 1898 when Frederick S. Fish, as chairman of the executive committee, persuaded the board to supply $4,000, or $ today, for the development of an electric vehicle.  However, lacking the board's full support, the project yielded one car.  The company did, however, enter into the field of producing bodies for electric taxis through Albert Augustus Pope’s Electric Vehicle Company.

Studebaker formally began production in earnest in 1902, and the company chose battery-powered electric vehicles because they were clean, easily recharged, and worked well in urban centers without ever needing to visit a refueling depot (gas stations).

Studebaker Electrics were available in a variety of body styles, many of which mimicked the bodies that the brand had long produced for its lucrative passenger carriage line.  These included the Stanhope, Victoria, and Surrey. A four-passenger model was introduced in 1904.

Fish realized early on that Studebaker's future did not rest in the limited electric car, but in the gasoline-powered automobile.  Studebaker's field of expertise was in body building and product distribution, not engine building.  This realization led to the creation of the Studebaker-Garford automobile in 1904.  The joint agreement worked well until 1909-1910, when Garford attempted to divert chassis to its own brand of automobile. Studebaker, looking for an affordable car to sell, entered into an agreement with the E-M-F Company of Detroit.  E-M-F would build the entire car, which would then be distributed through Studebaker wagon dealers.

Still, Studebaker continued to build electric vehicles until Fish decided to begin the process of seizing control of E-M-F in 1909, which Studebaker completed by 1910.

By 1912, it became conventional wisdom that the future lay in gasoline-powered engines rather than heavy, sluggish electrics, and the limited production of electric cars stopped.  An official announcement from the newly re-incorporated Studebaker Corporation stated:
The production of electric automobiles at South Bend has ended. . . It has been conducted for nine years without much success, and ultimately the superiority of the gasoline car (is) apparent.

See also
 Studebaker
 Studebaker National Museum

References

Electric
First car made by manufacturer
Battery electric vehicles
USNS Alan Shepard. USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE-3) is a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship in the United States Navy. She is named after the astronaut and Rear Admiral, Alan Shepard (1923–1998), the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon.

Service history
The contract to build her was awarded to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) of San Diego, on 16 July 2002. Construction began on 13 September 2005.  She was launched on 6 December 2006, sponsored by Laura Churchley, daughter of RAdm. Shepard.

Alan Shepard entered active service in 2007. She was initially part of the Pacific Fleet.

During Exercise Pacific Vanguard in August 2022, Alan Shepard launched a BQM-177A target drone during live-fire practice with the guided-missile destroyer  and the Australian frigate ; this was the first time the drone was used in a training exercise. Both vessels launched missiles at the BWM-177A and successfully intercepted it.

By 2023, Alan Shepard was assigned to the United States Fifth Fleet. In July 2023, Alan Shepard entered a shipyard in Al Hidd, Bahrain, and on 15 July, while leaving the shipyard, she ran aground. None of the approximately 85 individuals on the ship were injured in the accident. The next day, tugboats refloated Alan Shepard. An inspection after the accident revealed that Alan Shepard was not significantly damaged.

References

External links 

 

Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ships
Ships built in San Diego
2006 ships
Alan Shepard
Bulk carriers of the United States Navy
Maritime incidents in 2023