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Pininfarina Sintesi. The Pininfarina Sintesi is a concept car designed by Pininfarina and unveiled in 2008 at the Geneva Motor Show. The name 'Sintesi' means 'synthesis' in the Italian language.
Context
The Pininfarina Sintesi was a 4-door 4-seat shooting-brake. The concept was born from the manufacturer's view of in... |
European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting. The European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting (EWF) is an organization dedicated to education, training, qualification and certification in the field of welding and related technologies.
History
In 1992, welding course providers of several EU countries ... |
Diamond DA62. The Diamond DA62 is a five- to seven-seat, twin-engine light aircraft produced by Diamond Aircraft Industries and first announced in March 2012.
The prototype, designated as the DA52, first flew on 3 April 2012 after six months of development. In June 2014 it was announced the production aircraft would b... |
Third International Electric Tramway and Railway Exhibition. The Third International Electric Tramway and Railway Exhibition was held in the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, London, England, from 3 July 1905 to 14 July 1905
It was a successor event to the Second International Tramways and Light Railways Exhibition ... |
XT3. XT3 is a model of the XT video server. It was created in 2011 by Belgian company EVS Broadcast Equipment.
Features
This video server was built and designed to allow broadcasters to record, control and play media. It is capable of handling up to 12 channels of SD/HD, 6 channels of 3D/1080p (3G or dual link), as w... |
International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity. The International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) is an annual academic conference with refereed presentations, in the field of Distributed Computing with a special focus on the interplay between... |
Railway electrification in France. There are 15,687 km of electrified railways in France, making up approximately 55% of the network in use.
For historical reason there are two norms of electrification that coexist in France: 1,500 V DC and 25 kV 50 Hz AC.
The electrification of the French railway network was made in... |
XS (server). XS is the studio production server of the Belgian company EVS Broadcast Equipment.
It has been inspired from the XT3 server but can be controlled by dedicated controllers from EVS for the studio environment: Xsense, IPDirector, Xscreen, Insio or by non-EVS controllers such as automation systems, linear or... |
Schwab Verkehrstechnik AG. Schwab Verkehrstechnik AG is a Swiss manufacturer of energy absorption systems for railway vehicles. The company develops, manufactures and markets basically two product lines: couplings and buffers.
Basics
The company is based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and employed, by end of 2011, 39 p... |
Compound Junior. Compound Junior is a public art work by artist Beverly Pepper located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The stainless steel sculpture is an abstract bent line. The form's ends are pressed to the ground horizontally and its middle is jutting upward vertically; it is installed on... |
Hortonworks. Hortonworks, Inc. was a data software company based in Santa Clara, California that developed and supported open-source software (primarily around Apache Hadoop) designed to manage big data and associated processing.
Hortonworks software was used to build enterprise data services and applications such as ... |
Kalahasti P. Prasad. Kalahasti Parvatheeswara Prasad (15 June 1944 – 5 April 2010) was a researcher and educator in Electrical Engineering in the Andhra Pradesh province of India.
Biography
He was born at Nellore of Nellore district at a time when this was still part of Madras Presidency to Kalahasti Ramanathan Sastru... |
Boat lift (disambiguation). A boat lift is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations.
Boat lift or Boatlift may also refer to:
The Boatlift, an album by rapper Pitbull
Mariel boatlift, a mass emigration of Cubans for the United States, 1980
The maritime response following the Septem... |
Quantum oscillations. In condensed matter physics, quantum oscillations describes a series of related experimental techniques used to map the Fermi surface of a metal in the presence of a strong magnetic field. These techniques are based on the principle of Landau quantization of Fermions moving in a magnetic field. Fo... |
Kambarka Engineering Works. Kambarka Engineering Works - Full name: Open Joint Stock Company «Kambarka Engineering Works» ( or ; ). A rolling stock manufacturer, located in the city of Kambarka (Udmurt), Russia.
History of the factory
Construction of an iron work started in 1761 and opened in 1767. The foundry produc... |
SES-2. SES-2 is a communications satellite operated by SES. It was launched alongside the Arabsat-5C satellite.
Spacecraft
The platform is home to the first hosted payload, a mechanism by which governmental entities can fly modules on commercial satellites. It carries 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders of 36 MHz c... |
Pasig River Expressway. The Pasig River Expressway (PAREX) is a proposed elevated expressway in Metro Manila, Philippines skirting the banks of the Pasig River and connecting the cities of Manila, Mandaluyong, Makati, Pasig, Taguig and the municipality of Taytay. The expressway is proposed to alleviate east-west traffi... |
Belarusian Steel Works. OJSC Belarusian Steel Works (Russian: ОАО Белорусский металлургический завод, , "БМЗ", BMZ) is a Belarusian company operating in the steel industry, centred in Zhlobin, Gomel Region. The main raw material of the enterprise is scrap. The company's products range from concast square steel billets,... |
Junín Airport. Junín Airport () was a domestic airport serving Junín, a city in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. It is located north of the city.
Current aerial imagery shows the runway is marked closed. Google Earth Historical Imagery (8/31/2009), (9/9/2013) show the closure was sometime after August 2009.
... |
Molecular reference standards. Molecular/Genomic reference standards are a class of ‘controls’ or standards used to check the performance of molecular diagnostic assays. Molecular/Genomic Reference Materials (RMs) are selected or engineered to model a specific genetic biomarker as it occurs in a patient biopsy. Referen... |
Robert J. Harrison. Robert J. Harrison (born June 19, 1960) is a distinguished expert in high-performance computing. He is a professor in the Applied Mathematics and Statistics department and founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University with a $20M endowment. Through ... |
PlanetPhysics. PlanetPhysics was a virtual community with several Internet sites supported by a non-profit organization registered in the USA in an open science, open data, peer-to-peer review mode that aimed to help make physics, and related mathematics, knowledge much more accessible, as well as to further develop p... |
Sea-Bow International Sea-Bow. The Sea-Bow International Sea-Bow is a Canadian powered parachute, designed by Gerald Racicot and produced by Sea-Bow International, formerly called Valmecot Inc, of Valcourt, Quebec.
The aircraft was introduced in 2000 and production ended when the company went out of business in 2015.
... |
Sea-Bow. Sea-Bow may refer to:
Sea-Bow International, a Canadian aircraft manufacturer
Sea-Bow International Sea-Bow, the aircraft they build |
F.W. Webb Company. F.W. Webb Company, founded in 1866, is a wholesale distributor of engineering and construction products, such as plumbing, heating, and HVAC fixtures. It operates in the northeastern United States.
History
The company was founded in Boston in 1866 by John Stults as the city's second wholesale deale... |
Poole and District Electric Tramways. The Poole and District Electric Tramways operated an electric tramway service in Poole between 1901 and 1905.
History
The Poole and District Electric Traction Company was a subsidiary of British Electric Traction. A single line was built from Poole railway station through Upper P... |
Livestock Water Recycling. Livestock Water Recycling, Inc. (LWR) is a privately owned Canadian company based in Calgary, Alberta. The environmental company focuses on livestock manure management of dairy, poultry, hog and digester CAFO livestock operations.
The company has built and manufactured industrial waste water... |
CNA PM.1. The CNA PM.1 was a single-engine light sport and training aircraft designed and built in Italy at the start of World War II. After tests of the prototype a small production run was laid down but destroyed by bombing.
Design and development
The PM.1 was designed by students at the Instituto di Construzioni ... |
Bill Tomlinson. William M. "Bill" Tomlinson is a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He studies the fields of environmental informatics, human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems and compu... |
Sea-Bow International. Sea-Bow International was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer, based in Valcourt, Quebec. The company was founded by designer Gerald Racicot and specialized in the design and production of powered parachutes. The company was originally called Valmecot, Inc.
The company was founded about 2000 and we... |
Prospector (spacecraft). Prospector was a proposed lunar probe that was intended to be flown in support of the Apollo lunar missions.
History
Prospector arose as a result of President John F. Kennedy's desire to rehabilitate the tarnished image of US spaceflight. In 1961, NASA proposed a series of robotic probes, inc... |
Maudslay, Sons and Field. Maudslay, Sons and Field was an engineering company based in Lambeth, London.
History
The company was founded by Henry Maudslay as Henry Maudslay and Company in 1798 and was later reorganised into Maudslay, Sons and Field in 1833 after his sons Thomas and Joseph, as well as Joshua Field joine... |
Load–store architecture. In computer engineering, a load–store architecture (or a register–register architecture) is an instruction set architecture that divides instructions into two categories: memory access (load and store between memory and registers) and ALU operations (which only occur between registers).
Some R... |
Register–memory architecture. In computer engineering, a register–memory architecture is an instruction set architecture that allows operations to be performed on (or from) memory, as well as registers. If the architecture allows all operands to be in memory or in registers, or in combinations, it is called a "register... |
Adria (motorcycle). The Adria company were better known for their motor vehicle and boat engines, but between 1912 and 1928 they built a range of 276cc, 282cc, 294cc and 346cc side-valve single-cylinder powered bikes.
References
Motorcycle manufacturers of Germany |
ADS (motorcycle). ADS were a small assembler of 98cc autocycles using Sachs and Ilo engines.
References
Motorcycle manufacturers of Belgium |
AEL (motorcycle). AEL was a motorcycle and accessories dealer in Coventry, England who assembled bikes between 1919 and 1924 using frames probably manufactured in Coventry. Engines ranged from 147cc to 348cc, and were provided by companies such as Villiers, JAP and Blackburne.
References
External links
1923 advertis... |
Aeolus (motorcycle 1903–1905). The Aeolus was manufactured in England by the Bown Manufacturing Company between 1903 and 1905, and featured a 492cc single-cylinder engine with shaft drive to the rear wheel. Production was on a limited scale.
References
Goods manufactured in England
Vehicles introduced in 1903
1903 es... |
Aeolus (motorcycle 1914–1916). The Aeolus was manufactured between 1914 and 1916 with a 147cc two-stroke engine by the Bown Manufacturing Company, between 1919 and 1924 the machine was branded as Bownian
References
Motorcycles introduced in the 1910s |
Aero (motorcycle). The Aero was the creation of Narazo Shamazu, who had built motorcycles under the NS name prior to World War I. The Aero was manufactured between 1925 and 1927, and featured 250cc and 633cc single-cylinder engines.
References
Motorcycle manufacturers of Japan |
Aeros (motorcycle). Designed by Franz Bezina, the Aeros motorcycle was manufactured between 1927 and 1929. It featured a BMW-inspired frame with a leaf spring fork and 347cc and 497cc three-valve overhead camshaft single-cylinder engines.
References
Motorcycle manufacturers of Czechoslovakia
Defunct manufacturing com... |
AFW (motorcycle). The AFW was manufactured in Germany between 1923 and 1925, and used a 246cc overhead valve engine supplied by Hansa Prazisionwerke AG of Bielefeld.
References
Motorcycle manufacturers of Germany |
Mojette transform. The Mojette transform is an application of discrete geometry. More specifically, it is a discrete and exact version of the Radon transform, thus a projection operator.
The IRCCyN laboratory - UMR CNRS 6597 in Nantes, France has been developing it since 1994.
The first characteristic of the Mojette ... |
Group 3J Improved Production Cars. Group 3J Improved Production Cars is an Australian motor racing category for modified road cars.
The category is defined by Motorsport Australia as being for race vehicles derived from registered production automobiles, with limited modifications to improve performance and reliabili... |
Makar-class survey catamaran. The Makar-class survey catamarans are a series of six 500 ton steel hull/aluminium superstructure Hydrographic Survey Catamarans being built by Alcock Ashdown (Gujarat) Ltd at its Bhavnagar shipyard for the Indian Navy. The ships are designed by an Australian naval architecture firm Sea Tr... |
Bolton Corporation Tramways. Bolton Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Bolton between 1899 and 1947.
History
The Corporation took over the Bolton Horse Tramways and the tramway assets of Edmund Holden and Company in June 1899, and undertook a programme of modernisation and electrification.
The first ... |
Benson's algorithm. Benson's algorithm, named after Harold Benson, is a method for solving multi-objective linear programming problems and vector linear programs. This works by finding the "efficient extreme points in the outcome set". The primary concept in Benson's algorithm is to evaluate the upper image of the ve... |
Hartlepool Electric Tramways. The Hartlepool Electric Tramways operated a tramway service in Hartlepool, County Durham, England, between 1899 and 1927.
History
The Hartlepool Electric Tramways Company was a subsidiary of British Electric Traction. In January 1899 it purchased the assets of the Hartlepools Steam Tra... |
Farrier Marine. Farrier Marine is a catamaran and trimaran manufacturer based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The sailing boats produced by this shipyard are designed by Ian Farrier (1947-2017), and have a unique patented folding system without hinges in the beams or the critical beam to float join, allowing overall bea... |
Field effect (semiconductor). In physics, the field effect refers to the modulation of the electrical conductivity of a material by the application of an external electric field.
In a metal, the electron density that responds to applied fields is so large that an external electric field can penetrate only a very short... |
John Penn and Sons. John Penn and Sons was an English engineering company based in London, and mainly known for its marine steam engines.
History
Establishment
In 1799, engineer and millwright John Penn (born in Taunton, Somerset, 1770; died 6 June 1843) started an agricultural engineering business on the site at the... |
Humphrys, Tennant and Dykes. Humphrys, Tennant and Dykes (later named Humphrys, Tennant and Co.) was a British engineering company based in Deptford, London, England.
History
The company was founded in 1852 by Edward Humphrys, formerly chief engineer of Woolwich Dockyard, where Dykes was also employed in the steam fac... |
UrFU, Institute of Physics and Technology. Institute of Physics and Technology (IPT) is one of leading institutions of Ural Federal University. IPT was transformed from Physical Engineering faculty of USTU-UPI during merging USTU-UPI and USU. The institute trains specialists in the following fields: physico-chemical, p... |
Six Chuter SR1. The Six Chuter SR1 is an American powered parachute that was designed and produced by Six Chuter of Yakima, Washington.
Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . It features a parachute-st... |
Six Chuter SR7. The Six Chuter SR7 is an American powered parachute that was designed and produced by Six Chuter of Yakima, Washington, introduced in 1997.
Design and development
The SR7's design goals included that it be capable of carrying large-sized pilots and passengers.
The aircraft was designed to comply with... |
Crinkle crankle wall. A crinkle crankle wall, also known as a crinkum crankum, sinusoidal, serpentine, ribbon or wavy wall, is an unusual type of structural or garden wall built in a serpentine shape with alternating curves, originally used in Ancient Egypt, but also typically found in Suffolk in England.
The sinusoi... |
Six Chuter. Six Chuter is an American aircraft manufacturer, originally based in Yakima, Washington and founded in 1991. The company specializes in the design and production of powered parachutes. The company was founded as Six Chuter Inc by Dan Bailey.
In 2010 the company was purchased, the name changed to Six Chute... |
Robert Hails. Robert E. Hails (January 20, 1923 – March 16, 2012) was an American military officer who served as the vice commander of Tactical Air Command, Air Force deputy chief of staff for systems and logistics at the Pentagon, and commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center. He flew a B-24 during the Paci... |
Fire Shadow. Fire Shadow is a loitering munition designed by MBDA for the British Army. It is designed to loiter above the battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets. The cost of Phase 1 of the programme, including concept, assessment, demonstration and initial manufacture, was forecast... |
Landauer formula. In mesoscopic physics, the Landauer formula—named after Rolf Landauer, who first suggested its prototype in 1957—is a formula relating the electrical resistance of a quantum conductor to the scattering properties of the conductor. It is the equivalent of Ohm's law for mesoscopic circuits with spatial ... |
Flight computer. A flight computer is a form of slide rule used in aviation and one of a very few analog computers in widespread use in the 21st century. Sometimes it is called by the make or model name like E6B, CR, CRP-5 or in German, as the Dreieckrechner.
They are mostly used in flight training, but many professio... |
Scientific Computer Applications. Scientific Computer Applications Inc. (SCAI) is a privately held, American company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. SCAI develops and markets scientific software focused on the Oil exploration and production segment of the petroleum industry.
Scientific Computer Applications, Inc. (SCAI) was... |
Snowy Scheme Museum. The Snowy Scheme Museum is a museum in the Snowy Mountains town of Adaminaby, New South Wales, Australia. It houses exhibitions relating to the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme.
Overview
The Museum tells the story of the construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme and what life ... |
Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal. The Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal, referred to in Japan as the Toshiba Machine Cocom violation case, was an international trade incident that unfolded during the final period of the Cold War. It centered on certain Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) member nations who... |
ABG-class training ship. The ABG class of cadet training ships is a series of three vessels being built by the ABG Shipyard in Gujarat for the Indian Navy.
Description
The proposed cadet training ships will have displacement of 4,000 tonnes each and will feature high-efficiency controllable-pitch propellers (CPP) pow... |
Grob G 120TP. The Grob G 120TP is a two-seat turboprop training and aerobatic low-wing aircraft with a composite airframe, built by Grob Aircraft. It is based on the Grob G 120A training aircraft and has been developed for military and civil pilots training. It has a retractable tricycle landing gear and a low tailplan... |
Empresa Brasileira de Terminais Portuários. Embraport, syllabic abbreviation of Empresa Brasileira de Terminais Portuários, is the largest multiple use private sector port terminal of Brasil. The port started operation in July 2013. the first stage of the port can handle 1.2 million TEU, with the second stage in operat... |
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