omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Alameda Municipal Power. Alameda Municipal Power (formerly Alameda Power & Telecom) is a municipal utility serving the City of Alameda, California.  Founded in 1887, it provides electricity to c. 34,000 residential, commercial, and municipal customers at rates up to 20 percent below neighboring communities.   The first engineer at the plant was HP Nielsen.

As Alameda Power & Telecom, the utility previously provided Cable TV and high-speed Internet services to city residents; their system was acquired by Comcast on November 21, 2008, for $17 million. The estimated net result of this venture was a loss of more than $60 million for the City of Alameda.

During 2014, 22 percent of AMP's power mix came from renewable resources, including biomass (landfill gas) from Pittsburg, Butte, Santa Cruz and Richmond, CA; small hydroelectric from Graeagle and Central Valley CA; and winds from the High Winds Project in Sonoma County, CA. An additional 15 percent of the power mix came from large hydroelectric projects in Calaveras, Shasta, and Central Valley, CA (California does not count power from large hydroelectric dams as renewable). All together, AMP's power is 37% carbon-neutral in 2014.

AMP has been providing 100% clean energy since 2020 and did so in 2023 at approximately a 35% saving over comparable PG&E rates.

References

External links 
 
 

Alameda, California
Companies based in Alameda, California
Municipal electric utilities of the United States
Science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area
William Henry Bristol. William Henry Bristol (July 5, 1859–June 18, 1930) was an inventor, manufacturer, educator, and environmentalist. Bristol was born in Waterbury, Connecticut.

After graduating from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1884 with an engineering degree, he returned there in 1886 as an instructor and progressed to become a professor of mathematics in 1899.  While at Stevens, he patented products including a steel lacing for industrial belts and a pressure chart recorder.  The need to manufacture these products led to the founding of the Bristol Company in 1889 with his brother, Franklin, and his father, Benjamin.  

By 1915, the company was manufacturing the largest and most complete line of industrial instruments in the world, including instruments to measure and record temperature, electricity, pressure, motion, time, flow, and humidity.  These instruments were the first to provide an uninterrupted history of manufacturing plant operations; increasing efficiency, improving quality, and allowing higher rates of productivity.

He was awarded the John Scott Medal in 1890.  Edward Longstreth Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1894.

In 1904, Professor Bristol invented the first practical pyrometer for measuring high temperatures.  This created another new industry and led to the formation of the William H. Bristol Pyrometer Company in New York City.

In 1915, he invented the “Bristolphone” to simultaneously record voices and other sounds with motion in moving pictures.  He founded the William H. Bristol Talking Picture Corporation to develop “synchronized talking motion pictures,” and produced one of the first full-length motion pictures with sound.  The Bristolphone was used in nearly one hundred movie houses in the U.S.  He also developed and manufactured loud speakers, power amplifiers, radios and phonograph recorders.  His “Audiophone,” which was used at Yankee Stadium and Grand Central Station in New York, revolutionized public address systems.

William Bristol was awarded medals at expositions in Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), Saint Louis (1904), San Francisco (1915) and Philadelphia (1926).  He received two awards from the Franklin Institute to honor his distinguished career.  He gained worldwide recognition while making possible major advances in both pure scientific knowledge and industrial technology.  Bristol, who received nearly 100 patents during his lifetime, died on June 18, 1930.

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1859 births
1930 deaths
19th-century American inventors
20th-century American inventors
Stevens Institute of Technology faculty
Slash (logging). In forestry, slash, or slashings are coarse and fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow or other natural forest disturbances. Slash generated during logging operations may increase fire hazard, and some North American states have passed laws requiring the treatment of logging slash. Logging slash can be  chipped and used (for example) in the production of electricity or heat in cogeneration power-plants, or simply burned onsite.

Where logging takes place on soft ground, loggers can use the branches and tops of trees as part of the timber-harvesting process to provide a track for forest machines.
Using slash in this manner reduces ground damage.

See also
 Coarse woody debris
 Lignocellulosic biomass

References

External links
 A Slash/Mulch site in Colorado

Logging
LVG. Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. (L.V.G. or LVG) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Berlin-Johannisthal, which began constructing aircraft in 1912, building Farman-type aircraft. The company constructed many reconnaissance and light bomber biplanes during World War I.

The raid on London in 1916 was conducted by one LVG C.IV. It dropped its bombs near London Victoria station, but was shot down by French anti-aircraft gunners on its way home.

Aircraft

Own designs

LVG B.I - reconnaissance and later trainer aircraft
LVG B.II - reconnaissance and later trainer aircraft
LVG B.III - trainer aircraft
LVG C.I - first tandem-seated aircraft with observer-manned machine gun
LVG C.II - reconnaissance aircraft
LVG C.IV - reconnaissance aircraft
LVG C.V - reconnaissance aircraft
LVG C.VI - more than 1,000 aircraft of this type were produced
LVG C.VIII - prototype only
LVG C.IX - not finished
LVG D 10
LVG D.II - prototype only
LVG D.III - prototype only
LVG D.IV - prototype only
LVG D.V - prototype only
LVG D.VI - prototype only
LVG E.I - experimental aircraft with two machine guns
LVG G.I - bomber aircraft
LVG G.II - triplane
LVG G.III - triplane bomber designed by Schütte-Lanz but built by LVG, the Schütte-Lanz G.V

Other aircraft manufactured at LVG
Albatros B.II
Albatros C.II
Gotha G.IV
Sablatnig SF 5

Further reading 

 Grosz, Peter M.: LVG C.VI, Windsock Datafile Nr. 17, Albatros Prod. Ltd, Berkhamsted 1989
 Heinz J. Nowarra: Flugzeuge 1914-1918. München 1959.
 Karlheinz Kens, Hans Müller: Die Flugzeuge des ersten Weltkriegs. München 1966, .
 Karl R. Pawlas: Deutsche Flugzeuge 1914-18. Nürnberg 1976, .
 Günter Kroschel, Helmut Stützer: Die deutschen Militärflugzeuge 1910-18. Wilhelmshaven 1977, .

Aviation history of Berlin
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany
List of structures built by Thomas Brassey. Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building a large portion of the world's railways in the 19th century.  For some of these constructions he was the sole contractor but he usually worked in partnership with other contractors, particularly Peto and Betts.

Railways and associated structures
Brassey arranged the building of over  of railway tracks.  By 1847 he had built one third of the railways in the United Kingdom and by the time of his death he had built one in twenty of the miles of railway in the world.  He also built structures associated with railways - bridges, stations, etc. - and non-railway related structures.  The following is an incomplete list of his projects.  For the British railways the dates given are the date of the relevant Act of Parliament; for railways elsewhere and for other structures the date given is the date of the contract.

Railway lines

United Kingdom

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

Unknown dates

France
75 per cent of the total mileage, including:

Elsewhere in Europe

Canada

Argentina

Australia

India

Mauritius

Tunnels

Stations
Many hundreds, including:

Viaducts and other structures
Many, including:

Bridges
Again a large number, including:

Non-railway projects

References

Brassey
Airscoot. The Airscoot was a car made by the Wichita, Kansas-based company Aircraft Products in 1947 to fit the need for a small car that could commute to and from airports then be folded up and put aboard private aircraft. It was able to attain this goal by weighing a mere , and measuring only  in length. Passenger and stowage accommodations included seats for two passengers and a luggage rack in front for two suitcases. Its one-cylinder,  air-cooled engine claimed to be capable of , though the gas tank could only hold 3/10ths of a gallon. Little further information is available on this car.

References

External links
Photo

Veteran vehicles
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Companies based in Kansas
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1947
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1947
Defunct companies based in Kansas
1947 establishments in Kansas
1947 disestablishments in Kansas
Deforestation (computer science). In the theory of programming languages in computer science, deforestation (also known as fusion) is a program transformation to eliminate intermediate lists or tree structures that are created and then immediately consumed by a program.

The term "deforestation" was originally coined by Philip Wadler in his 1990 paper "Deforestation: transforming programs to eliminate trees". 

Deforestation is typically applied to programs in functional programming languages, particularly non-strict programming languages such as Haskell. One particular algorithm for deforestation, shortcut deforestation, is implemented in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Deforestation is closely related to escape analysis.

See also 
 Hylomorphism (computer science)

References 

Compiler optimizations
Implementation of functional programming languages
Double-sided tape. Double-sided tape is any pressure-sensitive tape that is coated with adhesive on both sides. It is designed to stick two surfaces together, often in a way which is not visible in the end product, due to it being in between the objects rather than overlaying them.  This allows for neater-looking projects and better craftsmanship. Double-sided tape can be either thin or dimensional. Dimensional tape is thicker, and is of particular use to retail and signage uses where it can be used to allow signs or displays to stand out with a 3-D effect.

Double-sided tape is created by applying a thin adhesive layer to each side of a carrier material. For example, double-sided tissue tape, an easy-to-rip double-sided tape, is created by applying adhesive to two sides of tissue paper, which is then wound with a silicone paper to avoid it sticking to itself. Most adhesive tapes are manufactured in log form, such as a large 1 to 3 meter wide roll, and then an adhesive tape converter is used to slit the rolls into the required widths.

One type of double-sided tape, known as lingerie tape, secures clothing to skin, and is used with strapless dresses or loose skirts, and as a temporary fix for fallen hems and other clothing imperfections.

A patent for double-sided adhesive tape was filed in 1987 by Dean Waldenberger on behalf of Norton Company.

See also
Adhesive tape
Duct tape
Masking tape
Electrical tape
 List of adhesive tapes

References

External links 
 

Adhesive tape
Grant (automobile). The Grant Motor Co was an American automobile manufacturing company from 1913 to 1922, based in Findlay, Ohio. The company produced several thousand four- and six-cylinder automobiles, and exported cars to England as Whiting-Grant. In 1916, a five-passenger touring car produced by the company sold for .

See also
 Brass Era car

References

External links
 Grant Six Model H (1921)

Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Ohio
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Ohio
Cars introduced in 1913
1920s cars
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1913
1913 establishments in Ohio
1922 disestablishments in Ohio
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1922
Findlay, Ohio
Aermet. AerMet alloy is an ultra-high strength type of martensitic alloy steel. The main alloying elements are cobalt and nickel, but chromium, molybdenum and carbon are also added. Its exceptional properties are hardness, tensile strength, fracture toughness and ductility. Aermet is weldable with no preheating needed. AerMet alloy is not corrosion resistant, so it must be sealed if used in a moist environment. AerMet is a registered trademark of Carpenter Technology Corporation.

Three types of AerMet alloys are currently available: AerMet 100 (also known as AerMet-for-Tooling), AerMet 310 and AerMet 340 alloy.

Examples of applications include armor, fasteners, airplane landing gear, ordnance, jet engine shafts, structural members and drive shafts.

Properties

AerMet 100 Alloy 
The UNS number is K92580. The alloy has a modulus of elasticity of 28,200 ksi and a density of 0.285 lb/in3 (7.89 g/cm3). AerMet 100 alloy is somewhat more difficult to machine than 4340 at HRC 38. Therefore, carbide tools are usually used. Standard shapes that are available include round, sheet, welding wire, billet, plate, strip and wire.

AerMet alloy is special in that it must be hardened twice in order to reach its maximum effectiveness. The first hardening application is a solution treatment at  for 1 hour. It is then quenched to a temperature of  over 1 to 2 hours. It then must be cold treated, where the material is cooled to  for 1 hour. The second hardening process is aging, where the material is heated to  for 5 hours.

AerMet 310 Alloy
AerMet 310 is harder and stronger than AerMet 100 alloy while maintaining ductility and toughness. Standard shapes include round bar, wire, billet, plate, and strip. AerMet 310 is hardened with the same procedure as AerMet 100.

AerMet 340 Alloy
AerMet 340 alloy has a higher strength than AerMet 310.

AerMet 340 is hardened differently from the other two varieties. The first hardening application is a solution treatment at  for 1 hour. It is then quenched to a temperature of  over 1 to 2 hours. The material may then be cold treated, where the material is cooled to  for 1 hour. The second hardening process is aging, where the material is heated to  for 3 to 8 hours. If the cold treatment is skipped, the part can be aged twice to get the same results.

See also
 Maraging steel (Precipitation-hardened steels with similar strength.)
 USAF-96 and Eglin steel (Inexpensive precipitation-hardened steels with high strength and lower nickel content. USAF-96 also needs no tungsten.)

References

Steels
Carpentier joint. A carpentier joint is a hinge consisting of  several thin metal strips of curved cross section, similar in structure to retracting steel measuring tape, or some retractable radio antennas. It has two configurations: closed and open. The defining property of the joint is that it is self-opening, does not need mechanical elements such as guides, and maintains a certain degree of stiffness when in the open configuration.

The hinge is used in antenna deployment, solar arrays and sensor deployment in satellite applications.

The hinge locks in the open condition. To fold, the spring strips are subjected to sufficient bending moment to pop the curved section of each strip flat in the centre, and flex along the length from the centre in an elastic curve to the desired angle, where it must be held in place until it is to be deployed. Release of the restraining force allows the elasticity of the material and the stored energy of bending to restore the strips to straight configuration, at which point the sectional curve will pop back and lock the strip straight. Depending on the length of the spring strips and the width of the end-pieces, the hinge may be folded to angles in the order of 180° The entire folding motion is provided by elastic deformation of the strips, there is no sliding contact surface.

References

Hardware (mechanical)
Rasonic. Rasonic () is a brand name under Shun Hing Electric Works and Engineering Co. Ltd, a company that distribute a variety of electronic products.

Description

Under the brand name Rasonic, the company offers a variety of home appliances, such as rice cookers, hair dryers, dehumidifiers, refrigerators, ovens, plasma and LCD televisions, DVD Recorders, kettles, air conditioning units, foot massagers, and vacuum cleaners produced by various OEM manufacturers.

External links
Rasonic website

Electronics companies of Hong Kong
Panasonic Corporation brands
Central Valley Greenway. The Central Valley Greenway (CVG) is a 24-kilometre pedestrian and cyclist route in  Metro Vancouver, running from Science World in Vancouver to New Westminster, through Burnaby. The greenway officially opened on June 27, 2009, with opening celebrations, guided bike tours, and walking tours on sections of the route. Despite its official opening, some sections are complete on an interim basis and are anticipated to be upgraded in the future.

The total cost of the greenway was approximately $24 million. Funding was provided by the government of Canada, the province of British Columbia, TransLink, Metro Vancouver, and the cities of Vancouver, Burnaby, and New Westminster. The greenway was catalyzed by a grant given to Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) by Vancity Credit Union, in recognition of its transportation advocacy efforts, such as advocating for the construction of the greenway.

Route

The greenway provides a safe corridor for commuters and a green route to local parks. In the Burnaby and New Westminster sections, the route runs near the SkyTrain's Millennium Line. The route follows the Central Valley, providing a remarkably flat route through a hilly region. Most sections of the trail, a combination of off-road paths and quality on-street routes, are suitable for many users (pedestrians, commuter and recreational cyclists, wheelchair users, in-line skaters, etc.). In Burnaby there are some gravel paths less suitable for in-line skating. Sections of the trail in Burnaby passing through Burnaby Lake Regional Park (pedestrian route) and along the Brunette River are open during daylight hours only.

Along the way, the Central Valley Greenway connects major destinations, including

the False Creek Seawall
Great Northern Way Campus
Vancouver Community College (VCC)
Commercial Drive
Burnaby Lake Sports Complex
Burnaby Lake Regional Park
Hume Park
Sapperton
Royal Columbian Hospital
Downtown New Westminster
13 SkyTrain stations

See also
Vancouver Greenway Network

External links
City of Vancouver – Central Valley Greenway
City of Burnaby – Central Valley Greenway
TransLink - BC Parkway and Central Valley Greenway Map
TransLink - A guide to a cycling adventure along the Central Valley Greenway

Bike paths in British Columbia
Transport in Greater Vancouver
Proposed transport infrastructure in Canada
Tomáš Čermák. Tomáš Čermák (born February 8, 1943, in Ostrava) is a Czech engineer and rector of Technical University of Ostrava (VŠB-TUO).

Life 

Tomáš Čermák graduated in 1964 from Brno University of Technology at the faculty of electrical engineering. From 1964 to 1968 he worked as an engineer for the Vitkovice Steel Company. In 1968 he became senior researcher at the VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava. In 1981 he became an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1974 he earned his Ph.D. in the field of electrical drives at the Brno University of Technology.

From 1977 to 1990 Čermák was deputy head, head and vice-dean of the Department of Electrical Machines and Drives at VŠB – TUO. In 1991 he earned a full professorship. 
 
Čermák was rector of the Technical University of Ostrava from 1990 to 1997, and vice-rector for R&D and Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2003. He serves as the rector of VŠB – TUO since 2003.

Čermák is a member of numerous national and international committees, such as vice-president of Czech Universities Council, Member of General Assembly of Czech Academy of Science (AVČR) and founding member of the Czech Engineering Academy (IAČR) and International Centre for Eyecare Education (ICEE). He is also consultant for the Czech government as a member of the State Committee for Scientific Degrees and Chairman of Engineering Division of Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR).

Since 1997 he has been Chairman of the Board of the Vesuvius (formerly Hinckley) Slavia Group and Chairman of Supervisory at OZOBEL.

Čermák is an author of nine books and numerous articles in journals and papers from national and international conferences.

References

External links
 Website Tomáš Čermák (VŠB-TUO) 

Living people
1943 births
Czech engineers
Academic staff of the Technical University of Ostrava
GRE (company). GRE (株式会社　ゼネラル　リサ－チ　オブ　エレクトロニックス General Research of Electronics, Inc.) was a Japan-based multinational manufacturer of electronics equipment, primarily in the fields of radio and other telecommunications. Their products included transceivers, radio scanners, antennas, GPS devices, and satellite equipment. They also produced OEM equipment for other companies, including Radio Shack, Uniden and Commtel.

GRE was established in 1961, and its headquarters was located in Tokyo. GRE had a manufacturing facility in Chiba Prefecture which closed in October 2012. In late 1977, GRE established "GRE America, Inc.", its first overseas operation, with a head office in California. The company established its second overseas corporation, "GRE (Hong Kong), Ltd.", in 1986.

In 2006, Kazunori Imazeki became CEO and president of the company.

In October, 2012, its China factory was shuttered and GRE ceased all production. GRE America continued to service GRECOM products and to sell and service Alinco radio products for the North American market.

In May, 2013, GRE America Inc (USA Branch) moved from its Belmont, California location after losing Alinco's Distribution rights in North American market. GRE America relocated to San Leandro, California.

In January, 2014, Whistler Group took over production of GRE's scanner line. Due to several of GRE's engineers working with Whistler, the products produced by the overtaking company are very similar to that of GRE's at the time of operation cessation. Whistler later began selling radio scanners formerly produced for Radio Shack with separate product numbers but identical hardware.

In February, 2014, GRE (Japan) head office closed its Tokyo office and relocated to its Chiba location where they had once produced its product line when it first established back in 1961.

In September 2014, 'General Research of Electronics' Japan (GRE) decided to cease its USA business operations and closed its California office since there is no active business due to lack of financial resource and  development capabilities at GRE Japan.

References

External links
Support download page for scanner line Still accessible as of January 2019. 

Electronics companies of Japan
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
Electronics companies established in 1961
Amateur radio companies
Japanese brands
Japanese companies established in 1961
Electronics companies disestablished in 2014
Japanese companies disestablished in 2014
Nikolai N. Kolesnikov. Nikolai Nikolayevich Kolesnikov (; born 1959) is a Russian scientist who works in the fields of semiconductor and superconductor crystal growth, semiconductor and carbon nanotechnologies.

Kolesnikov graduated from Phys.-Chem. Department of the Moscow Chemico-Technological Institute in 1982 From 1982 to 1993 he worked in the Institute of Solid State Physics and since 1993 has been head of the Laboratory of Physical-Chemical Basis of Crystallisation of the ISSP.

References

1959 births
Russian physical chemists
Russian inventors
Living people