George Young Blair

George Young Blair (1826 Drumrauch near Dundee – Drumrauch Hall 22 September 1894) was a Scottish marine engineer, who specialised in the building of triple expansion engines at his factory "Blair & Co., Ltd." in Stockton-on-Tees.
Business life.
In 1855 George Blair was appointed manager of Fossick & Hackworth, becoming a partner in 1865. The firm was renamed Fossick, Blair & Co. on Hackworth's retirement, and when Fossick died in 1866 it became Blair & Co.
Blair's management led to the firm's specialising in marine engines. The 700 employees grew to 2 000, and the works covered seven and a half acres. Blair produced the first compound steam engine built on the Tees in January 1869 and fitted it to the "Glenmore" built by Backhouse & Dixon. This was followed in 1884 by its first triple-expansion engine, fitted to the "Burgos" which had been built by Richardson, Duck and Company.
In 1887 Blair constructed massive sheerlegs next to the Tees. These were capable of lifting 100 tons of marine engine into new ships. By 1914 the yard had turned out some 1 400 marine engines, followed by 75 during World War I. After the War the firm was taken over by Gould Steamships and Industrials in 1919.
Personal life.
George Young Blair was born at Drumrauch Farm, Pittenweem, Anstruther, Fife, Scotland, and married Margaret Borrie (1836–1888), daughter of Peter Borrie and Jean Simson, on 4 September 1862 at St. Hilda's Church, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, North Riding, England.
He constructed the family home, Drumrauch Hall, and bought Linden Grove, also at Hutton Rudby in Yorkshire. In 1862 his residence was at 149 High Street, Stockton-on-Tees. He acted as Justice of the Peace for County Durham.
The children of George Young Blair and Margaret Borrie were:


Nanfu Battery

Fujian Nanping Nanfu Battery, Co., Ltd., also known as Nanfu Battery, is a leading alkaline battery manufacturer and supplier. Nanfu Battery is headquartered in Nanping, Fujian province, China. Nanfu Battery holds the number one position in China's alkaline battery market with over eighty percent of the country's market share.
Nanfu Battery products are also available for the American market via online sales platforms such as eBay and Amazon.
History.
Fujian Nanping Nanfu Battery, Co., Ltd. was founded in 1988. The company owns over three million retail outlets in China. In August 2003, Gillette acquired a seventy-two percent stake in the company. Procter & Gamble (P&G) purchased Gillette in 2005 along with Gillette's stake in Nanfu Battery. CDH Investments then purchased P&G's 78.8 percent equity stake in Nanfu Battery in November 2014.
Products.
The company's major products are alkaline battery products, including AA, AAA, D, C, and 9V batteries. The company also produces lithium batteries.


Robert-Bourassa Reservoir

The Robert-Bourassa Reservoir () is a man-made lake in northern Quebec, Canada. It was created in the mid-1970s as part of the James Bay Project and provides the needed water for the Robert-Bourassa and La Grande-2-A generating stations. It has a maximum surface area of , and a surface elevation between and . The reservoir has an estimated volume of , of which is available for hydro-electric power generation.
The reservoir is formed behind the Robert-Bourassa Dam that was built across a valley of the La Grande River. This dam was constructed from 1974 to 1978, is 550 m (1,800 ft) wide at its base, and has 23 million m3 (30 million yd3) of fill. There are another 31 smaller dikes keeping the water inside the reservoir.


Sheerness Generating Station

Sheerness Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned by Heartland Generation (50%) and TransAlta (50%), located southeast of Hanna, Alberta.
Description.
Two Hitachi turbines with Alstom boilers.


Niagara Region Wind Farm

The Niagara Region Wind Farm is a wind farm located in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario. The wind farms generates 230 MW of electricity and is the second largest wind farm in Ontario by installed capacity after Henvey Inlet Wind Power Project. It is co-owned by Boralex, Enercon, and the Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation.


Low Level Waste Repository

The Low Level Waste Repository is the UK's central long-term store for low-level radioactive waste. It is located on the West Cumbrian coast near Drigg village.
Function.
The site stores low level radioactive waste from Sellafield, MoD sites, nuclear power stations, hospitals, universities, medical companies and the oil industry. The site, which was opened in 1959 by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covers about on the site of the former Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF Drigg).
Ownership and management.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the current owners, announced in March 2008 that UK Nuclear Waste Management Ltd (a consortium led by the Washington Division of URS Corporation and including Studsvik UK, AREVA-NC and Serco Assurance) had been awarded the contract for the management and operation of the Low Level Waste Repository.
It was announced in 2020 that LLWR direct management will transfer to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in July 2021.
Continued use.
In early 2008, Cumbria County Council granted permission for a new vault, Vault 9, to be built to accommodate about 700 ISO steel containers per year and be able to hold 5,500 ISO steel containers in total, giving an operational life of about eight years. The vault opened for use in 2010.
In 2015, a report from the Environment Agency acknowledged that the site would be disrupted in the future by coastal erosion and flooding, and placed requirements on LLWR Ltd to maintain a programme of coastal monitoring and to keep up-to-date with research and development on the long-term effects of climate change.


Perkins 6.372

The Perkins 6.372 is a diesel engine manufactured by Perkins Engines. The designation 6.372 indicates six cylinders and 372 cubic inch (6.1 litre) capacity. It is derived from the 6.354 (six cylinder, 354 in³ or 5.8L, L6 engine) bored out with a 0.100" larger bore. It produces 112 horsepower in industrial form.
Turbocharged version.
The T6.3724 is the turbocharged version of the above engine, and the "4" on the end of the nomenclature, indicates a DOT 4 (later, improved) series engine.


Tarong North Power Station

Tarong North Power Station is a 443 megawatt coal fired power station on the same site as Tarong Power Station in the South Burnett. The Queensland Government commissioned the construction of the power station in November 1999. Construction work began in 2000. The power station was initially owned by a 50/50 joint venture between Tarong Energy and TM Energy. Full ownership of the power station by Tarong Energy was obtained in November 2009.
The plant was opened in 2003 and is based on an energy efficient supercritical design. The Steam Generator was supplied by IHI and the steam turbine was manufactured by Toshiba.
Particulate emissions at the power station are reduced by bag filter technology.


Aero Engine Corporation of China

Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) is a Chinese state-owned aerospace manufacturer focused on the design and development of aeroengine and related technology. The company was established on August 28, 2016. At launch, AECC was to be capitalised with US$7.5 billion with Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC), both shareholders, China's two main state aerospace companies.
AECC consists of 46 affiliate companies, including 22 engine companies, several institutes, 3 aeroengine-repairing factories and some other small companies, with the majority of the affiliate companies having been split from AVIC. The main institutes under AECC are Beijing Institute of Aerial Materials, Shenyang Engine Design and Research Institute, China Gas Turbine Research Institute, China Aero Power Machine Research Institute, Guizhou Aero-Engine Research Institute, and Chine Aero Power Control System Institute. The main subsidiaries of AECC are Harbin Dong'an Engine Manufacturing Company, Shenyang Liming Engine Manufacturing Company, Chengdu Engine Manufacturing Company, Xi'an Aero-Engine Manufacturing Company, Liyang Engine Manufacturing Company, and Shanghai Commercial Aero-Engine Manufacturing Company.
Products.
Turboprops.
The AEP500's 5,000 kW (6,700 hp) equivalent power is similar to the Dash 8 Q400's 4,600 kW Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150, to propel a 74-100 seats airliner at Mach 0.6 and FL300-330.
It has a three-shaft layout for compactness and performance retention, the low-pressure compressor has four axial stages while the high-pressure compressor has one axial and one centrifugal stage, both driven by single stages turbines.
A demonstrator without the three stage power turbine should be run in 2022/2023, a technology demonstrator in 2025, and certification is targeted for 2035
Takeoff BSFC should be below 260 g/kW/h (0.43 lb/hp/hr).
The 5,000-kW WJ-10 was intended for the Y-19 airlifter and may be introduced in the 2020s. A 5,000-kW engine could power a MTOW airlifter but more for higher performance like the Airbus A400M.
Controversy.
In November 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting U.S. companies and individuals owning shares in companies that the United States Department of Defense believe have links to the People's Liberation Army. The list produced by the United States Department of Defense as being linked to the People's Liberation Army includes AECC.


2006 Danvers Chemical fire

The 2006 Danvers Chemical fire took place at approximately 2:46 AM EST on Wednesday, November 22, 2006. An explosion occurred at the plant of solvent and ink manufacturer CAI Inc., located in the Danversport area of Danvers, Massachusetts, which it shared with paint manufacturer Arnel. The explosion was caught on security camera and was reportedly heard up to away in southern Maine and New Hampshire. Arnel ceased operations after the blast.
Cause.
A May 13, 2008 report from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board attributed the explosion to unintentional overnight heating of an ink-mixing tank containing flammable solvents.
Damage.
The explosion damaged over 90 homes, blowing out windows and knocking some houses off their foundations. Officials believed that some of the more extensively damaged houses would have to be leveled and rebuilt. Some of the buildings damaged included a bakery, boats at a nearby marina, and the New England Home for the Deaf, an assisted-living facility for people who are deaf or deafblind and elderly residents requiring constant care. "These people are extremely fragile," said state Rep. Ted Speliotis, D-Danvers, whose district includes the affected area. "Many of them have Alzheimer's and other illnesses. It's clear they can't stay here long, but it's clear they won't be able to return for quite a while."
Danvers Fire Chief James P. Tutko toured the area by helicopter and said many residents would be kept from their homes for the foreseeable future. "It looks like a war zone, that's the only thing I can say" Tutko said. Fortunately, no one was killed. "Somebody out there likes us", Tutko commented. Finally, he said that determining the cause of the explosion would take days.
Outgoing governor Mitt Romney toured the area and said the explosion was a "Thanksgiving miracle", as the explosion was "equivalent to a bomb going off in a residential neighborhood," and that no one was killed. In an area that included over 300 residents, just 10 people reported minor injuries. Residents of the area were evacuated to the Danvers High School, where temporary shelter was set up by the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay. Donations were taken for residents affected by the explosion. Residents were also advised to start filing insurance claims right away and to keep track of their expenses.
Environmental impact.
There were minor environmental concerns due to water runoff of chemicals. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's on-scene coordinator Mike Nalipinski, preliminary tests showed low levels of toluene, a solvent, but said it was insignificant. Water runoff from the water used by firefighters left a purple sheen on the river and tests were conducted. However, the water is not a local drinking water supply, and the chemical evaporates quickly. Chief Tutko said there was no risk of toxic fumes getting into the air.
An Eastern Propane facility is located near the area, however, it was not the source of the explosion. A spokesman for the company said that although the property suffered some minor damage, their tanks are secure.
According to WHDH television, a person who answered the telephone at CAI's Georgetown, Massachusetts headquarters refused comment, and a telephone message left at the company president's home was not returned.


Silego Technology Inc.

Silego Technology Inc. was an independent Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor company until it was acquired by Dialog Semiconductor on 1 November 2017.
Its products and services were created to design and sell highly configurable power, logic, and timing mixed signal IC products referred to as CMICs (Configurable mixed-signal IC products)., they are now part of the Dialog Semiconductor portfolio. Silego was ranked the second fastest growing semiconductor company in North America at the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 event held in Menlo Park, California.
By August 2016, the company had shipped more than 2 billion CMICs.


Ambarella Inc.

Ambarella, Inc. () is a fabless semiconductor design company, focusing on low-power, high-definition (HD) and Ultra HD video compression, image processing, and computer vision processors. Ambarella's products are used in a wide variety of human and computer vision applications, including video security, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electronic mirror, drive recorder, driver and in-cabin monitoring, autonomous driving, and robotics applications. Ambarella's system on chips (SoCs) are designed to deliver a combination of video compression, image processing, and computer vision performance with low-power operation to enable cameras to extract data from high-resolution video streams.
History.
Ambarella was founded in 2004 by Feng-Ming (Fermi) Wang and Les Kohn with the goal of developing high-definition H.264 video encoders for the professional broadcast market. Soon after, Ambarella applied this same technology to consumer video and security IP camera markets, focusing on the development of low-power, compression-efficient chips capable of producing high-quality imagery in challenging lighting and high-motion environments. Over the next decade, Ambarella chips were featured in a number of notable consumer camera products, including the GoPro Hero, the Dropcam by Nest, and the DJI Phantom series of drones.
In July 2015 Ambarella acquired VisLab, a pioneer in perception systems and autonomous vehicle research founded by Professor Alberto Broggi. VisLab has a history of developing computer vision and intelligent control systems for automotive and commercial applications, including ADAS and autonomous vehicles. Subsequent generations of Ambarella SoCs incorporated VisLab perception technologies at the hardware level, with the goal of targeting automotive OEM camera designs across all of SAE’s six levels of driving automation (ranging from fully manual to fully automated or “steering wheel optional”).
Technologies.
Ambarella develops intelligent embedded processors for a range of camera markets—including security, wearable, drone, sports/action, and automotive—with an emphasis on several core technologies.
Dedicated Hardware Architecture for Computer Vision
Known as CVflow®, Ambarella’s computer vision architecture includes a dedicated hardware engine programmed with a high-level algorithm description, allowing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained with industry-standard tools (such as Caffe and TensorFlow) to be mapped onto CVflow-based chips. This approach represents a marked difference from that of general-purpose architectures, such as those offered by GPUs and CPUs, which are popular alternatives for computer vision processing.
Stereovision
While Ambarella chips are capable of monocular processing, stereovision is a key focus area for the company. Using cameras with multiple lenses and image sensors, Ambarella’s stereovision processing enables the capture of three-dimensional imagery via the simulation of binocular vision, making it possible to detect generic obstacles that a perception system hasn’t been trained to recognize. This generic 3D obstacle detection can be valuable when deployed in partial or fully autonomous robotics applications where atypical objects may be encountered.
Edge Design
In contrast to cloud-dependent hardware technologies, Ambarella’s technologies are designed for use in edge applications, where a significant share of the processing is performed locally, onboard the device. To meet the demands of processing at the edge, Ambarella products prioritize low power consumption, reduced physical footprint, and extended operating temperature ranges.
Image Processing
Ambarella processors include specialized digital image processing hardware to convert raw image sensor data into color-corrected imagery, removing noise to improve quality in various lighting conditions, as well as performing lens distortion correction, digital image stabilization, and high dynamic range (HDR) processing.
The resulting image is either
(a.) encoded for streaming (e.g., in a security camera) or saving as a file (e.g., in an action/sports camera),
(b.) processed by computer vision algorithms to sense the surrounding environment (e.g., in an automotive front ADAS camera),
(d.) presented to the user on a visual display (e.g., in an automotive electronic mirror).
Video encoding
Ambarella SoCs use data compression techniques to encode video streams into popular industry-standard coding formats, including H.264 and H.265.
Applications.
Ambarella processors are designed specifically for automotive, security, consumer (e.g., sports, drone), and industrial/robotics camera applications.
Automotive
Ambarella automotive SoCs target both aftermarket and OEM camera designs. Relevant applications include simple drive recorders (i.e., dash cams), front ADAS cameras, driver and in-cabin monitoring systems, electronic mirrors, 360° surround view systems with parking assistance, and stereovision cameras for vehicular autonomy. Key automotive features include lane departure warning, lane keeping, forward collision warning, auto emergency braking (AEB), intelligent headlight control/high beam assist, speed assist, auto parking assist (APA), blind spot detection, target tracking, generic obstacle detection, terrain modeling, curb/barrier detection, and sensor fusion.
Security
The company’s professional security and home monitoring camera applications place an emphasis on object detection/classification (CNN-based), face detection and recognition, person/pet/vehicle detection, license plate recognition (ANPR), behavioral analysis, and high-resolution image processing in low-light and high-contrast environments. Target camera designs include indoor/outdoor cameras, multi-sensor cameras, intelligent transport systems (ITS) and traffic cameras, retail cameras, wire-free cameras, and smart video doorbells.
Consumer
Building on its history in powering mass-market consumer video devices, Ambarella continues to target sports/action cameras, VR cameras, drones, and wearable cameras. Ambarella consumer processors prioritize high-resolution image processing, video compression, low-power operation, and computer vision features such as smart video editing, target-of-interest tracking, and augmented reality.
Industrial and Robotics
Ambarella computer vision processors are designed to enable a variety of intelligent robotics applications, including automated guided vehicles (AGVs), consumer robots, and industrial/machine vision solutions. Key features of interest include low-latency computer vision performance, neural network processing, stereovision capabilities, and high-resolution/high-framerate video analysis.


Goreway Power Station

Goreway Power Station is a natural gas power station owned by Capital Power Corporation, in Brampton, Ontario. The plant is used primarily during periods of peak demand. Gas is supplied by underground pipelines from the nearby Enbridge facility.
Description.
At 875 MW the plant is the second largest gas fired station in Canada behind the Greenfield Energy Centre and consists of:


Chamera II Hydroelectric Plant

Chamera II is a run of the river hydroelectric dam built by NHPC India. It is a 300 MW (3x100 MW) project built on the Ravi River in Himachal Pradesh. It was commissioned in March 2004.


Tieton Dam

Tieton Dam is an earth and concrete type dam on the Tieton River in Yakima County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The dam began operation in 1925. Its reservoir, Rimrock Lake, has a total capacity of with a normal operating capacity of to provides water for agricultural irrigation. This dam is a component of the Yakima Project. Upstream from the dam, the river is impounded by Clear Creek Dam, another element of the Yakima Project. About downstream from the dam, the Tieton River is tapped for the Tieton Main Canal.


Rayalaseema Thermal Power Station

Rayalaseema Thermal Power Station is located at Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of APGENCO.
Capacity.
The Thermal Power Station has a capacity of 1650 MW; 5 units of 210 MW each and 1 units of 600 MW.
Power Plant.
Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant was developed under 3 stages namely stage I,II and III.
The station is performing well in the recent years by achieving high plant load factor. It stood first in country during 98–99, 2002–03, 2003–04 and second during 99–2000, 2001–02.
The station has received Meritorious productivity awards for six consecutive years and Incentive award for seven consecutive years. BHEL commissioned stage IV unit 1x600MW in March 2018 leading to total installed capacity of RTPP to 1650MW.


Genesee Generating Station

Genesee Generating Station is a coal fired station owned by Capital Power Corporation, located near Genesee, Alberta, Canada; 71 km (44 miles) southwest of Edmonton, Alberta. Fuel is provided by the nearby coal mine, a joint venture of EPCOR and Westmoreland Prairie Resources. The Genesee cooling pond is an artificial pond covering . The pond is topped up with water from the North Saskatchewan River.
The station consists of three units.
Description.
The Genesee Generating Station consists of:
The boilers were supplied by Combustion Engineering/Hitachi while the turbines/generator are supplied by GEC/Hitachi. The plant has two smokestacks, one 138 m (453 ft) tall, the other 121 m (397 ft) tall.
Conversion to natural gas.
On 18 June 2019, Capital Power announced plans to expand the "dual-fuel" capabilities of all three units to running off 50% coal and 50% natural gas, with the intent to convert the power station to 100% natural gas use by 2030. Unit 2 will be converted by mid-2020 and unit 1 by spring 2021. Unit 3 will be converted to a 60/40 ratio of coal to natural gas by spring 2021 and will be converted to a 50/50 ratio at a later date.


Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor

Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR) was research reactor which was located at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York, on Long Island, approximately 60 miles east of New York City. The BRGG operated from 1950 until 1968 and has been fully decommissioned.
History.
The BGRR was the first nuclear reactor built after World War II for exclusively peaceful use. It was the first reactor constructed at BNL. The primary purposes of the BGRR were 1) to produce neutrons for scientific use, and 2) to refine nuclear reactor design. The reactor provided a source of neutrons for multidisciplinary scientific research in materials science, chemistry, biology, and physics.
Construction started on the reactor in 1947 and became operational in August 1950.
Design.
The BGRR was an air cooled, graphite moderated, uranium fueled research reactor. The 700 ton reactor core consisted of a graphite cube 25 ft. on a side constructed from over 60,000 individual pieces of graphite. The reactor was cooled by air drawn through the core by three 1,000 hp. fans. The biological shield was constructed of high-density concrete containing steel spheres and the notably dense iron ore limonite. As a research reactor, BGRR never had a power conversion system to generate electricity; heat from the nuclear reactions was exhausted through a tall stack to the atmosphere.
The BGRR fuel elements were charged and discharged through graphite channel openings on the south pile face. Reactor operations were controlled by the position of 16 control rods that penetrated the reactor horizontally in directions parallel to the diagonals of the reactor base.
The initial fuel of the BGRR was natural uranium (NU) which utilized aluminum fuel elements that were 11 feet long and contained 33 NU fuel slugs each. During the operation with the NU fuel, there were 28 fuel element failures.
In 1958, the NU fuel was replaced with highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel clad with aluminum. Each HEU element was 24 inches long.The fuel elements each contained 15 grams of HEU at 93% uranium-235. The fissionable material was a uranium-aluminum alloy slab, covered on the top and bottom by aluminum sheets at least 20 mils thick with the edges welded all around.
The reactor was designed for 32 megawatts thermal, with a design-operating limit of 28 megawatts thermal for NU fuel. The reactor normally operated at approximately 20 megawatts with HEU.
The reactor facility design included both neutron beam lines for experiments external to the reactor core and also pipe loops which allowed experiments to be conducted as fluids flowed through the operating reactor core.
External to the reactor building, and shared with the subsequently constructed HFBR, was the Reactor Bypass Filter Facility (RBFF). This facility provided improved air cleaning prior to exhaust to the atmosphere in the unlikely event of a fuel element failure at either the BGRR or the HFBR. It also provided sufficient air cleaning to allow the use of air cooling as a method of combating a graphite fire at the BGRR. The facility was placed into operation in 1965.
Decommissioning.
After operating for 18 years, BGRR was functionally obsolete. The BGRR was placed in standby mode in June 1968, then permanently shut down in 1969. All fuel was removed from the reactor and shipped to the Savannah River Site by 1972. The BGRR was fully decommissioned in 2012 following a 13-year, $148 million process. Contaminated materials were shipped to Nevada and Utah for disposal.
Several buildings and structures which housed the BGRR and associated facilities remain in safe storage or repurposed for other uses as of 2020.
Over its lifetime an estimated 25,000 individual experiments were performed by the reactor and accompanying scientists and engineers. The BGRR was the predecessor for the High Flux Beam Reactor also located at BNL.
The red and white, 320-foot-tall exhaust stack constructed for the BGRR in 1949 and later shared with the HFBR was a distinctive landmark for the area until its demolition in 2020.


Ovako

Ovako AB is a European manufacturer of engineering steel for customers e.g. in the bearing, transportation and manufacturing industries. Since 2018, Ovako has been owned by Nippon Steel Corporation.
The production is based on recycled scrap and includes steel in the form of bar, tube, ring and pre-components. Ovako is one of the world's largest manufacturers of seamless tubes for the bearing industry.
Operations.
Ovako produces bars, tubes, rings and pre-components. Ovako also produces steels for mining, rock drilling and construction applications. The company has 10 production sites in Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, and several sales companies in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Ovako steel is made from recycled scrap that is then refined and transformed into products such as hot-rolled or cold-rolled bars with various profiles and forms of processing, tubes, rings and pre-components.
Ovako's customers are primarily the European engineering industry and its subcontractors, for example makers of trucks, contracting plant and industrial applications, the mining industry and the wind power industry. The majority of Ovako's products are sold to customers in Europe but steel is also exported to North America and Asia.
Sales in 2015 were EUR 834 million and the number of employees at the end of 2015 was 2 905. Operations are divided into four business areas: Hofors, Hällefors, Bar Imatra and Bar SmeBox.
Marcus Hedblom has been CEO of Ovako since 2015. The chairman of Ovako's board of directors is Joakim Olsson.
Products.
Ovako operates on the market for long, low alloy steel products. The majority of production consists of bars, tubes and rings that are used in items such as ball bearings, products for the automotive industry, hydraulic cylinders and rock drills.
Ovako specialises in steel with a high degree of purity and low oxygen content, steel with improved machining properties and boron steel with high abrasion resistance.
Ovako is Europe's biggest manufacturer of piston rods for the hydraulics industry via its CROMAX group of companies. These are low carbon, hard chromium-plated rods of high-strength steel.
Production sites.
Ovako has 10 production sites: Boxholm, Forsbacka, Hallstahammar, Hofors, Hällefors and Smedjebacken in Sweden, Imatra in Finland, Molinella in Italy, Redon in France and Almelo in the Netherlands. The company also has sales offices in a number of countries worldwide.
History.
Ovako's production is a further development of some of the ironworks set up in Sweden in the 17th and 18th centuries in places such as Hofors, Boxholm and Hällefors. The ironworks gradually grew into major industrial centers and subsequently belonged to the companies that merged to form Ovako today.
Ball bearing steel was produced in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1916, SKF acquired Hofors Bruk, followed in 1958 by Hellefors Bruk. 1935 saw the start of production of steel in Imatra, Finland, where Ovako still operates today, as it does in Hofors and Hällefors.
The steel industry developed, and new technology meant that it was possible to produce steel of higher quality in a shorter time. The predecessors of what is Ovako today gradually began to focus production on special steel. During the same period, the steelworks in Smedjebacken, Hofors and Imatra supplied increasing volumes of steel to the automotive and engineering industries.
In 1969, the Finnish steel companies Oy Vuoksenniska Ab and Oy Fiskars Ab formed a joint company: Ovako. In 1972, Wärtsilä became a shareholder in the company.
In 1981, Smedjebackens Walsverk and Boxholms AB merged to form Smedjebacken-Boxholm Stål AB. In 1988, the company was acquired by Welbond, which subsequently changed its name to Fundia.
In 1986, Ovako Steel was formed via a merger of SKF Steel and Ovako. In 1991, SKF became sole owner of Ovako Steel, while operations in Imatra continued under the name Imatra Steel. In the same year, Fundia was acquired by Rautaruukki Oy and Norsk Jern Holding A/S.
In 2005, the present company Ovako was formed via a merger of Fundia, Ovako Steel and Imatra Steel. The company is owned jointly by Rautaruukki, SKF and Wärtsila. In 2006, Ovako was sold to Pampus Industrie Beteiligungen and the Dutch investors Hombergh Holdings BV and WP de Pundert Ventures BV. In 2007, Pampus Industrie Beteiligungen became the sole owner.
In 2010, Ovako was sold to Triton, which took over everything except the wire rod division from the company.
In 2018 Ovako was sold to Nippon Steel.
In 2020, Ovako demonstrated the first use of hydrogen to heat steel before rolling.


Christian J. Lambertsen

Christian James Lambertsen (May 15, 1917 – February 11, 2011) was an American environmental medicine and diving medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the United States Navy frogmen's rebreathers in the early 1940s for underwater warfare. Lambertsen designed a series of rebreathers in 1940 (patent filing date: 16 Dec 1940) and in 1944 (patent issue date: 2 May 1944) and first called his invention "breathing apparatus". Later, after the war, he called it "Laru" (portmanteau for Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit) and finally, in 1952, he changed his invention's name again to SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus). Although diving regulator technology was invented by Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943 and was unrelated to rebreathers, the current use of the word SCUBA is largely attributed to the Gagnan-Cousteau invention. The US Navy considers Lambertsen to be "the father of the Frogmen".
Education.
Lambertsen was born in Westfield, New Jersey, and raised in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, where he graduated from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in 1935; he was inducted into his high school's hall of fame in 2016. He attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating in 1939 with a bachelor of science degree. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943.
Lambertsen was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Northwestern University in 1977.
Army career.
Major Lambertsen served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946. He invented the first Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) and demonstrated it to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (after already being rejected by the U.S. Navy) in a pool at a hotel in Washington, D.C. OSS not only bought into the concept, they hired Major Lambertsen to lead the program and build-up the dive element of their maritime unit. He was vital in establishing the first cadres of U.S. military operational combat swimmers during late World War II. The OSS was also the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the maritime element still exists inside their Special Activities Division.
His responsibilities included training and developing methods of combining self-contained diving and swimmer delivery including the Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit for the OSS "Operational Swimmer Group". Following World War II, he trained U.S. forces in methods for submerged operations, including composite fleet submarine / operational swimmers activity.
Civilian career.
From 1946 to 1953, Lambertsen served on the faculty of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, though he did spend a year as a Visiting Research Associate Professor from 1951 to 1952 for the Department of Physiology at University College London, England. Lambertsen spent the 1950s concentrating on national research needs in undersea medicine (see National Service Activities below). He again took an appointment as Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1962. He was also named Professor of Medicine in 1972 and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1976. Each of these appointments were held until 1987. In 1985, he became Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lambertsen was the founder and director of The Environmental Biomedical Stress Data Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The University of Pennsylvania's annual Christian J. Lambertsen Honorary Lecture is named for him. On May 31, 2007 the guest speaker was Professor Marc Feldmann, head of Imperial College's Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology who is recognised for his discovery of anti-TNF treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Lambertsen was in attendance.
Contributions to environmental medicine.
Predictive Studies Series.
Dr. Lambertsen's "Predictive Studies Series", spanning from 1969 with TEKTITE I to 1997, researched many aspects of humans in extreme environments.


Kangaroo Island Power Station

The Kangaroo Island power station is a set of diesel generators located at the Kingscote substation at Brownlow KI on Kangaroo Island.
It consists of three 2MWe Caterpillar 3516B generators capable of providing a combined 6MW of power.
Owned and operated by SA Power Networks, it is used to provide stability of supply if both of the submarine power cables to the mainland are unavailable.


John Swan (engineer)

John Swan (1787–1869) was an engineer who worked for the shipbuilder Charles Gordon & Co. in Deptford. In 1824, he demonstrated the efficacy of the screw propeller using a model boat on a pond in the grounds of Mr Gordon's house in Dulwich. Others present included Captain Forbes of the Royal Navy and Dr. George Birkbeck, who wrote in praise of the invention in "The Mechanics' Register",
Swan is buried in Abney Park Cemetery and his memorial is listed for preservation as Grade II. His inscription reads:


Rheidol Power Station

Rheidol power station is a 56MW hydroelectric scheme near Aberystwyth, Wales. It was built between 1957 and 1962 and was officially opened on 3 July 1964. It has been operated by Statkraft since 2009 after it was transferred from E.ON UK as part of a swap for shares. In 1964/65 Rheidol Power Station was awarded the Christopher Hinton trophy in recognition of good housekeeping.
The power plant is the largest of its kind in England and Wales. The plant has generated renewable energy by using rainwater that falls on the surrounding mountains since 1962. The plant covers a total area of and is made up of an interconnected group of reservoirs, dams, pipelines, aqueducts, and power stations. The upper reaches of the scheme are over above sea level in the Plynlimon mountains. A series of aqueducts collects the water and channels it into the Nant-Y-Moch reservoir. Water flows from this reservoir to a power station at Dinas where it drives a 13MW generator. From the power station, the water flows into Dinas reservoir. Dinas reservoir supplies water to the largest power station at Cwm Rheidol where there are two 20.5MW generators. At Cwm Rheidol a further reservoir has been created to avoid large variations in the flow of water. This reservoir collects water that flows through the power station and releases it slowly through a 1MW generator.


Lanyu Power Plant

The Lanyu Power Plant () is a fuel-fired power plant in Yuren Village, Orchid Island, Taitung County, Taiwan. It is the only power plant on Orchid Island.
Technical specification.
The power plant uses 15,000 liter of diesel fuel daily to generate electricity. It has two units of 750,000 liter diesel storage tanks.


Atsumi Thermal Power Station

 is an oil-fired thermal power station operated by JERA in the city of Tahara, Aichi, Japan. The facility is located on reclaimed land at the tip of the Atsumi Peninsula at the entrance to Mikawa Bay.
History.
The Atsumi Thermal Power Station was built by Chubu Electric and first came on line in 1971. A total of four generating units were completed, two in 1971 and two in 1982. Unit 1 was taken offline and mothballed in 2001 and Unit 2 was taken offline in 2004. Due to high oil prices and the cost of modernization, Unit 2 was scrapped in 2004. Unit 1 was likewise scrapped by the end of 2017. Units 3 and 4 remain in operation, but are running at very low capacity (under 25%) due to sluggish demand for electricity and lower-cost alternative sources.


Dick Barlow

Richard Gorton Barlow (28 May 1851 – 31 July 1919) was a cricketer who played for Lancashire and England. Barlow is best remembered for his batting partnership with A N Hornby, which was immortalised in nostalgic poetry by Francis Thompson. He was also an umpire and a football referee, including at the record 26–0 score between Preston North End and Hyde in the FA Cup.
Overview.
Cricket was engrained in Barlow from an early age, and he went on to play for Lancashire for 20 years and continued to play at lower levels into his sixties. He left school aged fourteen to work in a printing office as an apprentice compositor. He was later an iron moulder with Dobson & Barlow in Bolton, and then in 1865 he moved to Derbyshire when his father got work at the Staveley Iron Works. It was for Staveley Iron Works Cricket Club that Barlow first played cricket, becoming a cricket professional with Farsley in Leeds in 1871, which was the year in which he first played for Lancashire. From 1873 to 1877 he was the professional for Saltaire in Bradford. Barlow played one match for Derbyshire in the 1875 season against a United North of England Eleven.
Barlow was 5 ft 8 inches tall and weighed approximately eleven stone. He was strong and sturdily built. Barlow was known for his defensive batting, which made it hard to dismiss him, and which earned him the nickname Stonewaller. On one occasion he scored no runs in a partnership of 45 with AN Hornby, who was dismissed for 44. He holds the world first-class record for the lowest score by a batsman carrying his bat: against Nottinghamshire in 1882 he batted through the innings and made 5 not out when Lancashire were dismissed for 69. Barlow was also a good bowler with much variation.
According to a (possibly apocryphal) story related by Alan Gibson, Barlow was working as a railway porter when Hornby first encountered him. Hornby happened to see him batting against the bowling of the station-master, and asked if he might have a bowl himself. "Ay, do," was the reply. "He's been in for a fortnight."
At Lord's.
Barlow is immortalised in one of the best-known pieces of cricket poetry, a poem called "At Lord's" by Francis Thompson. In it Thompson remembers back watching Barlow and A N Hornby play for Lancashire through rose-tinted glasses. The first verse of the poem, which is repeated as the final verse is the best known:
<poem>
 It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk,
 Though my own red roses there may blow;
 It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk,
 Though the red roses crest the caps, I know.
 For the field is full of shades as I near a shadowy coast,
 And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost,
 And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host
 As the run-stealers flicker to and fro,
 To and fro:
 Oh my Hornby and my Barlow long ago!
</poem>
The Ashes urn.
Barlow took part in the original Ashes match and is commemorated by the poem pasted on the side of The Ashes urn:
<poem>
 When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;"
 Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;"
 The welkin will ring loud,"
 The great crowd will feel proud,"
 Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;"
 And the rest coming home with the urn."
</poem>
Test career.
Barlow played seven times for England against Australia in England: in the match which gave rise to the Ashes at the Oval in 1882; and at Lord's, the Oval, and Old Trafford in 1884 and 1886. He made no big score in these matches, but his partnership with Allan Steel was the turning point of the game at Lord's in 1884, and at Manchester, in 1886, his steadiness pulled England through when the Australian bowlers were in deadly form on a slightly crumbled wicket. Moreover, he took seven wickets for 44 runs in Australia's second innings. In 1884 at Trent Bridge, for the North of England against the Australians, Barlow played the game of his life. He scored not out 10 and 101 and took ten wickets—four for six runs and six for 42. It is on record that when the North started their second innings on a slow and nasty wicket, Fred Spofforth, Australia's Demon bowler said, "Give me the ball: they won't get more than 60". As events turned out they got 255, Barlow and Flowers putting on 158 runs together after five wickets had fallen for 53. At the end of that afternoon Barlow was a very happy man. Barlow paid three visits to Australia, going out with Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury in 1881/1882, with the Hon. Ivo Bligh in 1882/3, and again with Shaw and Shrewsbury in 1886/1887. He played in every match of all three tours.
On the first of those tours, after scoring 75 at Sydney against New South Wales, a local wag presented Barlow with a commemorative belt. "I thought we had the champion sticker in Alec Bannerman," said the wag, "but you've fairly won the belt."
Late life.
Near the end of his life Barlow was quoted in the "Manchester Guardian": "I don't think any cricketer has enjoyed his cricketing career better than I have done, and if I had my time to come over again I should certainly be what I have been all my life – a professional cricketer".
Barlow had a wife, Harriet, and a daughter, Eliza. He died 31 July 1919 in Stanley Park, Blackpool, and is buried in Layton Cemetery. On his tombstone is inscribed 'bowled at last'.


Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladenbeck

Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladenbeck was a foundry located in Berlin, Germany, that operated from 1851 until 1926. During the 75-year period when the foundry was in operation it was one of the most important foundries in Germany and was known for producing high quality bronze castings.
History.
The Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladenbeck foundry opened for business in 1851 in Berlin, Germany, under the leadership of its founder, Carl Gustav Hermann Gladenbeck. It was one of the most important foundries in Germany, known for high quality bronze castings. Some of the first bronze sculptures that emerged from the foundry were marked "Gladenbeck" with subsequent castings over the years being marked "Gladenbeck und Sohn", "Akt-Ges v.H. Gladenbeck", "Akt-Ges Gladenbeck Berlin" or "Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladenbeck".
The foundry cast many of the best known bronze sculptures created by German artists in the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century. In addition to serving the usually modest casting requirements of German sculptors, the foundry was also capable of casting large-scale bronze statues. In 1913 the Gladenbeck foundry cast the monumental Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1910, Gladenbeck cast the"Three Dancing Maidens" Untermyer fountain by sculptor Walter Schott. The fountain is located in Conservatory Garden, Central Park, New York. The sculpture – situated on a limestone plinth – depicts three young ladies holding hands in a circle "whose dresses cling to their wet bodies as if they were perpetually in the fountain's spray". The fountain includes three jets, two on the oval pool's sides and a larger one in the center of the sculpture.
In the early 1920s, art deco master Ferdinand Preiss employed Gladenbeck to cast many of his bronze and chryselephantine sculptures.
Bankruptcy.
The foundry went out of business in 1926 when it declared bankruptcy.


Matochkin Strait

Matochkin Strait or Matochkin Shar () is a strait, structurally a fjord, between the Severny and Yuzhny Islands of Novaya Zemlya. It connects the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea.
Geography.
The Matochkin Strait is one of the largest fjords in the world.
The banks along the strait are high and steep. Its length is approximately and its width in its narrowest part is approximately
. The strait is covered with ice for the most of the year. There are fishing settlements along the strait (Matochkin Shar, Stolbovoy).
History.
The Tsar Bomba was detonated in the vicinity of Matochkin Strait in 1961, just north of neighboring Mityushikha Bay.
It is also the site where, from 1963 to 1990, about 39 underground nuclear tests took place in a vast array of tunnels and shafts under Mount Lazarev and other massifs. After 2000, Russia started to reactivate the test site by enlarging old tunnels and starting construction work. Each summer since then various subcritical hydronuclear experiments have taken place. In 2004, Rosatom reportedly performed a series of subcritical hydronuclear experiments with up to of weapon-grade plutonium each.


Sarnia Regional Cogeneration Plant

Sarnia Regional Cogeneration Plant is a natural gas power station owned by TransAlta Energy, in Sarnia, Ontario. The plant is primarily used to supply steam to Arlanxeo, Styrolution, Suncor and Nova Chemicals and power onto the Ontario Grid.
Description.
The plant consists of:


Amager Bakke

Amager Bakke (Amager Hill), also known as Amager Slope or Copenhill, is a combined heat and power waste-to-energy plant and sports facility in Amager, Copenhagen, Denmark. It opened in 2017, and partially replaced the nearby old incineration plant in Amager, which is in the process of being converted from coal to biomass (expected finished 2020). The two plants play a major role in Copenhagen's ambitions of being zero carbon by 2025.
Construction and technicalities.
The plant opened on 30 March 2017. It is estimated to cost $670 million, and is expected to burn 400,000 tons of municipal solid waste annually. It also houses a sports facility designed by Bjarke Ingels Group with an tall sloped roof that doubles as year-round artificial ski slope, hiking slope and climbing wall, which opened to the public October 4–6, 2019. The climbing wall, manufactured by Walltopia, is the world's tallest climbing wall at 85 meters.
Technically, the plant is designed to change between operating modes, producing 0-63 MW electricity and 157-247 MW district heating, depending on the local heat demand and power price. It produces more clean water than it uses. Because of filtration and other technologies, sulphur emission is expected to be reduced by 99.5% and NOx by about 95% as well as dioxins and HCl and it is claimed to be the cleanest incineration plant in the world.
A special feature of this facility will be that the chimney is intended to not emit its exhaust continuously, but instead in the form of "smoke" rings (consisting of water vapour rather than actual smoke).
Operational history.
On September 7, 2018 all waste treatment and energy production was stopped for 17 days to fix a design flaw in the compensators of the low pressure steam system.


Liberty Warehouse

Liberty Warehouse is a historic tobacco warehouse located at Mullins, Marion County, South Carolina. It was built about 1923, and is a 1 1/2-story, brick warehouse. It features stepped parapets and has a metal double gable roof. The warehouse is associated with the Daniel family, the most prominent family associated with tobacco in Mullins.
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.


St. Clair Energy Centre

The St. Clair Energy Centre is a natural gas power station in St. Clair, Ontario. The facility is owned by St Clair Power LP, a joint venture between Invenergy and the hedge fund Stark Investments, and operated by Invenergy Services Canada.
The plant was built in response to the Government of Ontario's 2004 initiative to produce lower-emission electricity, and has a 20-year contract from the Ontario Power Authority to provide electricity to the provincial power grid. The plant was partially built from equipment originally intended four-unit CCGT in Nelson Township, IL.
Description.
The plant consists of:


TDK-Micronas

TDK-Micronas is a developer and manufacturer of semiconductor-based sensors and ICs for automotive and industrial electronics. TDK-Micronas is headquartered in Freiburg, Germany.
History.
The company was founded in May 1989 in Switzerland as Crosstec Engineering AG. In July 1992 it took over Nokia’s subsidiary Micronas Oyand began operating as Micronas. In 1995, Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG was founded in Zurich and four months later the company was listed on the Swiss stock exchange. In 1997, Micronas acquired ITT’s German subsidiary in Freiburg.
In 2000, Micronas Holding AG took over 15% of Analog Circuit Technologies (now innoCOMM Wireless) in San Diego, California. This investment was sold in February 2001 with the acquisition of innoCOMM Wireless by National Semiconductor. In October of the same year Micronas acquired Infineon’s Image and Video division, in April 2003 the Dutch design center of Microtune, in May 2004 LINX Electronics, and in December 2005 WISchip International.
In 2007 and 2008 a restructuring of the consumer segment took place. Some parts of the consumer electronics division were sold in 2009, the remainder was closed. In addition to its automotive division, Micronas founded its industrial division in 2010 to focus on the automotive and industrial markets. In 2011 Micronas claimed to be profitable again after four years of losses.
In 2015 Micronas was acquired by the TDK Corporation and renamed "TDK-Micronas". Consequently, in October 2016, the company's stock was delisted.
In 2017 TDK-Micronas acquired the Belgian IC design company ICsense.
Corporate structure and products.
TDK-Micronas GmbH is headquartered in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, where its operational business center and production site are located. Additionally, TDK-Micronas maintains a development site in Munich and a test and finishing center in Glenrothes, Scotland. In addition to the operational subsidiaries in Germany, Scotland, Belgium, and Japan, TDK-Micronas operates sales offices in the United States, France, China, Italy, and Korea.
TDK-Micronas develops and manufactures semiconductor products for automotive and industrial applications. The product range comprises magnetic field sensors and current sensors based on the Hall effect, as well as embedded controllers: Hall effect switches, programmable linear Hall effect sensors, current sensors, and embedded controllers for smart actuators.
Investments.
TDK-Micronas has several subsidiaries:


Kasba Thermal Power Station

Kasba Thermal Power Station is a gas-based thermal power plant located at Kasba in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. The power plant is operated by CESC Limited.
Capacity.
It has an installed capacity of 40 MW (2x20 MW gas turbines).


Anchorage (maritime)

An anchorage is a location at sea where ships can lower anchors.
Anchorages are where anchors are lowered and utilised, whereas moorings usually are tethering to buoys or something similar. The locations usually have conditions for safe anchorage in protection from weather conditions, and other hazards.
The purpose of resting a ship at sea securely can be for waiting to enter ports, as well as taking on cargo or passengers where insufficient port facilities exist.
Some coastlines without port facilities have extensive anchorage locations.
In the days of large-scale sailing ship operations, a ship could wait at an anchorage for the wind to change, allowing it to continue its journey.
The mooring of large ships in locations with adequate conditions for secure berthing is an engineering task requiring considerable technical skill.


Coteau Creek Hydroelectric Station

Coteau Creek Hydroelectric Station is a hydroelectric station owned by SaskPower, located near Danielson Provincial Park about south-west of Saskatoon, between the towns of Outlook and Elbow. The station is on the South Saskatchewan River and draws water from the Gardiner Dam and is named after a nearby tributary to the South Saskatchewan River.
The Gardiner Dam was constructed between 1959 and 1967. The generating station required nearly 3 years to construct at a cost of CDN $40 million and became operational in 1969.
Description.
The Coteau Creek Hydroelectric Station has three 62 net MW vertical Francis turbine-generator units. The turbines were supplied by English Electric with generators made by the Canadian division of Westinghouse. Each turbine draws water from an intake and control structure on Gardiner Dam, through an underground steel penstock.
The powerhouse building is 87.5 metres long, 20.1 metres wide and 38.4 metres high. In a normal waterflow year, the station can generate 800 million kilowatthours, about 5% of Saskatchewan's annual electric energy (as much as 100,000 Saskpower customers use in a year). A nearby substation contains circuit breakers and other apparatus that connects the power station to the transmission grid.


Yemelyan Danilov

Yemelyan Danilov () (1627–1654) was a Russian bellmaker.
Yemelyan Danilov was born to a famous family of Muscovite bellmakers, the progenitor of which was Danila Matveyev. The latter was an apprentice to Kirill Samoylov, who, in turn, had once been a student of Andrey Chokhov. Danila Matveyev cast his first bells in 1622 and would receive an honorary title of "tsar's bellmaker" (государев колокольных дел мастер). The information about Danila Matveyev's career is rather scarse. It is known that he and his son Yemelyan Danilov cast a 700-pood (11,500 kg) bell for the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma in 1647. In 1651, Danila and Yemelyan began preparations for the recasting of the 800-pood (13,100 kg) Resurrection Bell (Воскресный колокол) for the Assumption belltower of the Moscow Kremlin. Danila could not finish this assignment due to his death that same year.
After the tsar had chosen him over a German bellmaker Hans Falk, Yemelyan Danilov continued his father's work and finished casting the Resurrection Bell in 1652. The bell weighed 998 poods (16,350 kg) and was used until 1782, when it would be recast by Yakov Zavyalov into a new 1017-pood (16,660 kg) bell. This new bell rang until the early 20th century and then cracked. In the 1930s, it was taken down by the Soviets and melted.
In 1652, tsar Alexei Mikhailovich ordered Yemelyan Danilov to cast a new 8,000-pood (130 tonne) bell instead of the broken Big Assumption Bell made by Andrey Chokhov. Danilov cast the bell in 1654, but it would be cracked in less than a year during festivities when it was still being refined. However, Yemelyan Danilov didn't live to see this day. He died during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Moscow in the summer of 1654.
Only two bells by Yemelyan Danilov survived to this day. One of them is a beautiful 60-pood (980 kg) bell (now in the Kolomenskoye museum), cast in 1648. The second 80-pood (1,300 kg) bell called "Баран" (Ram) (cast in 1654) still hangs on a famous belltower of the Rostov kremlin.
Yemelyan Danilov is also known to have been a protégé of a young bellmaker Alexander Grigoriev, who would be accepted to the Cannon Yard on his guarantee.


Balmain Power Station

The Balmain Power Station was located at Iron Cove, from Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The station no longer exists and residential properties now occupy the site. This plant is often confused with the White Bay Power Station, the remains of which are still standing in Rozelle.
History.
In 1903, the Public Health Department directed Balmain Council to find alternatives to the open tip dumping of local rubbish. The council invited tenders for a combined garbage destructor and power plant and on 30 September 1909, the newly constructed power station 'A' commenced operation. Power came from 2 Belliss and Morcom high-speed engines coupled to 5000-volt BTH generators. The output was 500 kW from one machine and 250 kW from the other. Steam came from two Babcox and Wilcox chain grate coal-fired boilers plus the destructor boiler. In 1913 two Willans & Robinson 900 kW turbo generators were added. These were further accompanied by a Curtis-BTH 2.5 MW turbine (No1) in 1914. A Curtis-BTH 3 MW machine (No2) was added in 1922. A 7.5 MW Fraser & Chalmers machine was added in 1923. Steam came from additional Babcox and Wilcox chain grate boilers. This brought "A" Station capacity to 15 MW. In 1928 a 10 MW Curtis - BTH machine (No3) was installed, and in 1935 an 18.75 MW AEG turbine (No4) was added, bringing total capacity to 41 MW. In 1947 and 1953 the first two Babcock+ Wilcox boilers were transferred to Muswellbrook power station.
'B' Station:- A second phase of construction took place between 1940 and 1950. A 9.4 MW English Electric back pressure turbine (No5) was installed. This was a high-pressure turbine that sent its exhaust steam to the "A" Station lower-pressure turbines. 1952 saw the addition of a 25 MW Parsons steam turbine (No6). Two more Parsons 25 MW machines (No7 and No8) were added by 1956. Steam for machines 5–8 was supplied by four high-pressure Babcox and Wilcox pulverized coal boilers. This doubled the generation capacity of the plant, bringing it to 126.2 MW.
The original station was a private facility, owned by the Electric Light and Power Supply Corporation (EL&PSC), which supplied electricity to consumers and businesses in Balmain, Leichhardt, Ashfield, Newtown and Petersham. It also supplied power to large enterprises in the local area including Mort's Dock and the Balmain Colliery.
The "Balmain Electric Light Company Purchase Act 1950" (NSW) enabled the acquisition of the plant by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales. A legal dispute over the valuation of the power station then ensued which delayed the sale until January 1957 when the plant changed hands for £600,000. The plant continued to supply power until 1976 when it was decommissioned.
Today.
The power station was demolished in 1998, and the "Balmain Shores" apartment complex was built on the site. Prior to its demolition, the 'B' Station was used as the set of an episode of the ABC program "Police Rescue".
Only two of the original buildings remain as part of the new development:


Windorah Solar Farm

The Windorah Solar Farm is Ergon Energy's first solar farm trial near the town of Windorah in Queensland.
The plant uses five concentrated solar dishes or reflectors which were manufactured and installed by Solar Systems. This is expected to save up to 100,000 litres of diesel fuel per year. The integration of solar farm and diesel power is a first for Ergon Energy.
The dishes contain 112 square mirrors each measuring 1.1 m across. The five solar reflectors sit atop 13 m masts and can rotate 360°. The array will produce about 180 kilowatts of electricity for up to 10 months of the year. The total cost of the project was A$4.5 million with $1 million being provided by the federal government.
The solar farm was opened in December 2008, and on sunny days will supply the total daytime electricity requirements for the town of Windorah, with a population of 100. When the solar power runs low the existing diesel power station provides electricity. Not all of the dishes are used all the time. Some dishes are parked depending on the town's energy requirements.
In 2013, Ergon Energy reported that the plant was operating effectively, with environmental conditions such as dust and wildlife having some impact on the reliability of the solar farm.


Lynn Dean

Lynn B. Dean is an American politician from Louisiana.
Dean graduated from Warren Easton High School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1940. He became a marine engineer, and founded the Universal Repair Service in 1949 with his twin brother Orrin. Lynn later established Elevating Boats Inc. Dean was a member of the St. Bernard Parish school board from 1981 to 1991, and led the St. Bernard Parish Council as president between 1992 and 1996. He served on the Louisiana Senate from 1996 to 2004 as a Republican. He replaced Samuel B. Nunez Jr. in Senate district 1, and was succeeded in office by Walter Boasso.


La Grande-2-A generating station

The La Grande-2-A is a hydroelectric power station on the La Grande River that is part of Hydro-Québec's James Bay Project. The station can generate 2,106 MW and was commissioned in 1991–1992. Together with the adjacent Robert-Bourassa generating station, it uses the reservoir and dam system of the Robert-Bourassa Reservoir to generate electricity.


Midas Civil

Midas Civil is a Finite Element Analysis software developed by MIDAS IT, used for bridge structural analysis and design. Midas Civil combines the powerful pre- and post-processing features with an extremely fast solver which makes bridge modeling and analysis simple, quick and effective. Also, there are several easy parameter modification tools available which can be used for parametric analysis leading to optimized and economical design.
Midas Civil Software Capabilities.
User-friendly GUI.
The user-oriented input/output functions are based on sophisticated and intuitive User Interface and up-to-date Computer Graphics techniques. They offer excellent facilities and productivity for the modeling and analysis of complex, large-scale structures.
Intuitive Modeling.
Midas Civil enables us to readily create nodes and elements as if we were drawing drawings using the major functions of CAD programs. Powerful automatic modeling functions such as Auto Mesh Generation and various Bridge Wizards are introduced. Once the basic section and bridge information and tendon placement data for the case of a PSC bridge are provided, the Wizard creates the completed bridge model as well as the construction stage models.
Complete Analysis Options.
Midas Civil provides linear and nonlinear structural analysis capabilities. A large collection of finite elements has been implemented for applications in civil and building structures. The program’s efficient analysis algorithms yield exceptional versatility and accurate results appropriate for practical design applications.
Post-Processor.
The post-processor can automatically create load combinations in accordance with specified design standards. Changing the type of display can produce various forms of graphic output. Practically all the results can be animated, namely, mode shapes, time history results of displacements and member forces, dynamic analysis results and static analysis results. midas Civil also provides results that are compatible with MS Excel, which enables the user to review all analysis and design results systematically.
Auto Design and Load Rating.
Midas Civil provides various design check and load rating features including: Eurocode & AASHTO LRFD, Bending, shear & torsional strengths, Composite plate girder design, Member forces & stresses for each construction stage and max & min stress summations, Automatic generation of load combinations in accordance with various design codes, MS Excel format calculation report.
Product Website.
Midas has several branch offices that cater to specific markets.
For North America you can go to https://www.midasoft.com/bridge for Latin America you can go to https://www.midasoft.com/es/latinoamerica
References.
midas Civil. (2021, March 5). In "midasoft.com". https://www.midasoft.com/bridge-library/civil/products/midascivil


2008 Ijegun pipeline explosion

On 15 May 2008 a pipeline explosion occurred in the community of Ijegun, a suburb north of Lagos, Nigeria. The explosion took place after a bulldozer struck an oil pipeline. The Lagos police have stated that the explosion appears to be an accident, and not the work of thieves, as in past pipeline explosions near Lagos. Construction workers accidentally broke an underground pipeline from which fuel started to spill out; moments later an explosion occurred.
The fire started from the Isolo end of Ijegun, which spread to surrounding homes and schools. It reportedly spread through buildings with occupants inside. The Ijegun Primary School was also damaged. More than 15 homes and more than 20 vehicles were burned in the fire. Firefighters and volunteers used sand and water in attempts to extinguish the fires. Forty minutes after the fire started, NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) firefighters arrived on the scene. The Lagos State Fire Service later arrived.
Deaths.
Although the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency puts the current death toll at ten, the Nigerian Red Cross claims at least 100 people have died. Other accounts state that the number dead is 39, including school children. AllAfrica.com reports that the death toll is up to 43. The bodies were taken to the Ikeja General Hospital. A pregnant woman and her 4-year-old son were also among the dead. The Nigerian Red Cross compiled names of the deceased and injured. They set up camps near the disaster as well. Local council and government officials claim that the actual death toll is much lower than what the Nigerian Red Cross is claiming.
Victims were taken to a hospital and are said to have been suffering from serious burns.
It's believed that when the explosion occurred, gate men at the Ijegun Primary School initially locked the gates apparently to prevent the pupils from running into danger. But when the atmosphere became tense, the gate men and other staff were said to have run for their lives leaving everyone to their fate.
At that point, students from Ijegun Comprehensive School who ran into the primary school premises were said to have jointly brought down the wall of the school to facilitate their escape. Most of them were trampled on. Eight out of sixteen pupils who were rushed to Corner Stone Hospital reportedly died on 15 May and another died a day later. Three residents were killed after being run over by vehicles whose drivers attempted to flee the fire zone.


Nipawin Hydroelectric Station

Nipawin Hydroelectric Station is a hydroelectric station owned by SaskPower, located near Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Description.
The Nipawin Hydroelectric Station has a capacity of 255MW, and consists of:
It is possible to expand the station to five generating units, which would keep the baseload capacity at 255MW, but would increase the peak capacity to 420MW.


Navman

Established by Sir Peter Maire in 1986 as New Zealand-based Talon Technology, Navman (as the company became known in the 1990s) is a GPS systems company providing stand-alone GPS units, OEM GPS modules, GPS software for Palm handhelds and Pocket PCs, automotive navigation systems and navigation systems for use at sea. At its height as a New Zealand-owned company, Navman employed 300 staff at its headquarters in Auckland.
Navman was acquired by Brunswick Corporation in June 2004 and become part of Brunswick New Technology. The company struggled to turn a profit and a mass exodus of senior management staff ensued.
The Navman Marine division designs and manufactures fish finders, sonar, VHF radios, autopilots and sailing instruments and was sold by Brunswick to the Norwegian company Navico in April 2007. The Navman PND (Portable Navigation Device) division was sold to MiTAC International Corporation in the first half of 2007 and this business retains principal use of the Navman brand, including the navman.com website. Sales, marketing and support is primarily based in Gatwick, UK. Though market pressures and cutbacks meant, as of 2015, the now Taiwanese-owned company has just two staff in New Zealand, with operations now transferred to an Australian affiliate. The remaining Navman divisions are Navman Wireless Vehicle Tracking Solutions and Navman Wireless OEM. These two business were sold by Brunswick in a single management buy out transaction in mid-2007. The company is doing business as Navman Wireless.
Navman-branded devices are still sold in Australia, New Zealand and in key markets across Europe alongside devices from Mio.
Alongside is her sister company Magellan which sells fitness and outdoor adventure GPS devices including the Magellan Cyclo 100 series, Cyclo 500 series, Magellan Echo, Magellan Switch, eXplorist GC, 110, 310, 510, 610 and 710.
Navman Wireless.
Navman Wireless was a global GPS-based technology and SaaS provider dedicated to developing better ways to capture and apply location, behavior and diagnostic data from assets and people in real-time to the pursuit of informed, smart and profitable decisions.
In 2015, Navman wireless merged with Teletrac to form Teletrac Navman.
Navman Wireless OEM Solutions.
Navman Wireless OEM Solutions was a division of Navman Wireless Holdings, a privately held company owned by independent investors and Prairie Capital Partners of Chicago. A leading designer and manufacturer of the Jupiter branded GPS modules, Navman Wireless OEM Solutions provides GPS modules, tracking devices and messaging terminals to thousands of companies worldwide for integration into their products and solutions. Its products are also compatible with OEM Data Deliveries Fuel Monitoring and Distribution control systems for heavy equipment. Navman Wireless OEM Solutions was sold to Telit in 2012.
Navman PND.
Software.
Since the merging of Navman and Mio under MiTAC, the Navman SmartST application has been used by both Navman and Mio products.
SmartST v6 used version 1.40 of the low-level MapCore library, and introduced a significantly different UI to the previous versions. In particular, in replaced up/down scrollbars with "glide touch" (also called "slide touch") scrolling, similar in concept to the iPhone. This approach, combined with a resistive touch screen, resulted in a number of usability complaints. As well as the UI changes, a number of new features were introduced such as 3D junction views, 3D landmarks, and advanced lane guidance.
SmartST v6.10 was released with the MY-series, and used version 1.42 of MapCore. This version restored the option of the traditional up/down buttons in addition to the glide touch used in version 6.
SmartST v7 (with MapCore 1.50) is the latest version of SmartST. The UI has again changed significantly, with a significant simplification of the main menu, and the removal of the "dockable windows" concept. This version also added a number of features over version 6.10:
All-in-one devices.
Currently, Navman devices are primarily marketed in Australia and New Zealand. Elsewhere, the devices are sold under the Mio label (though sometimes also sold as "Mio Navman" devices).
The EZY series was released in May 2010. All the devices run Windows CE 6.0, and SmartST 7.
The MY series was released in May 2009, with SmartST 6.10. All the devices run Windows CE 5.0.
The MY-500XT has a capacitive touchscreen, compared to the resistive touchscreen in the other models. In July 2010, Navman announced the three additional models:
Previous models.
The Platinum S-series was primarily a hardware update of the normal S-series. The same version of SmartST is used on both the Platinum and original S-series.
The S-series was released in September 2007, with the much-changed SmartST version 6. The flagship S90i model contained a built-in 2-megapixel camera for use with NavPix, something that has not reappeared on later flagship Navman devices.
June 2008: F-Series. The F15 is an entry level slim PND sold exclusively through RadioShack stores in the US. Key features of the F15: 3.5" Touch Screen, New UI based on the MioMaps GPS software by MiTAC owned Mio Technology, Maps of US and Puerto Rico, SiRFInstantFixII, and preloaded POIs. A version with a larger 4.3" screen, the F25 was sold in Europe, with a set of western Europe maps. Support from Navman/MiTAC was largely absent for this device.
January 2007: F-Series. The F30, F40 and F50 models were added. Based on the existing F20 unit, these new models were bundled with a variety of external modules to add new features out of the box. The F30 included a T1 traffic module to offer traffic (TMC) alerts. The F40 included a B2 module to offer Bluetooth handsfree calling. The F50 included a B2+ module offering both traffic (TMC) and Bluetooth.
2006: N-Series. Replacing the previous iCN 500 and iCN 700 series, the N40i and N60i are fully touch screen with nearest fuel and parking buttons and NavPix. The N60i was the top-range unit and has a wide, 4.3” screen. N-Series also had a third member, N20—intended as a replacement to 530 it suffered as the F20 cannibalised its sales.
2006: F20. Replacing the iCN 300 series, the F20 is small, fully touch screen and includes the nearest petrol and parking buttons. The F20 was essentially Navman's volume product, selling in great quantities, especially during the Christmas 2006 period.
In 2005, Navman replaced the 600 series with the 700 Series, consisting of the iCN 720 and iCN 750. The only difference between the two models was map storage—720 relied on memory cards while 750 had a 4 Gb built-in microdrive. It had a wide screen, was fully touch screen with no stylus, and included the nearest petrol and parking buttons. It was the first Navman unit with NavPix. Upon introduction of the 700 series, support was dropped for the 600 series essentially rendering the 600 series obsolete as there would be no additional map updates or product support available.
The original top-range units were those of the 600 Series. These are larger than the 300 and 500 units, offering louder sound and a wider, automotive grade screen. They are not touch screen, but are known for being strong and easy to see. The 600 units are the 610, 620, 630, 635 and 650. The 650 came with a built-in 2 GB microdrive and was also OEMed for Delphi and Sony.
The 500 Series was originally the middle of Navman’s range. It includes the iCN 510, 520, 530 and 550. They are touch-screen, and are usually operated with a stylus. The 550 introduced Navman’s unique nearest petrol and parking buttons, worldwide maps and real-time traffic updates. 530 was the last in the 500 Series introducing hardware styling later found on N-Series.
The 300 Series is Navman’s original range of basic, in-car satellite navigation units. It includes the iCN (in-car navigator) 320 and 330. The 320 introduced 2D moving maps, while the 330 had 3D moving maps.
Navman has also made a number of Pocket PCs in the past, known as the PiN Series, running from the PiN 200/Pin 300 to 570. They were not popular, however, and have long since been discontinued.
TMC.
The TMC Accessory Kit equips the Navman S30 3D with TMC (Traffic Message Channel, this is, traffic alerts & re-routing). The MY TMC is for Navman MY30. S Series Platinum TMC Accessory Kit is compatible with the latest Platinum range S100/150/200 & the Classic S45 and S35.
The MY30, MY50T, MY55T, MY500XT, S300T, S200, S150, S100, S45, S35, S90i, S80, S30 and S50 have TMC built-in.
NavPix.
Navman introduced "NavPix" on its iCN 700 portable navigation devices in 2006. Navman was the first company worldwide to introduce NavPix (on which they hold a patent). The NavPix technology combines a digital image with geographical data to create the NavPix image, which is a record of the exact location where that image was taken. The iCN 720 and iCN 750 were the first Navman GPS products that were NavPix-enabled, using a 1.3 MegaPixel camera to take the NavPix.
NavPix was developed to offer users an alternative way to navigate, by selecting an image rather than entering an address or post code.
The N Series – N for NavPix – products launched in September 2006, introduced two more NavPix-enabled products – the N40i and wide-screen N60i, both of which had an integrated digital camera to take the NavPix. The N20 model can use NavPix images, but not take them.
The NavPix image contains the latitude and longitude information within the Exif metadata. These images can be selected on the compatible Navman as an alternative way to define a destination or way-point when planning a route.
The latest Navman sat nav, the S90i offers a 2.0 MegaPixel camera for taking NavPix. Other S-Series models, the S50 and S70, are NavPix compatible meaning NavPix images can be loaded onto the device for use.
NavPix images may be freely accessed from the Navman NavPix Library as well as other sites such as Flickr.
Navman Marine.
Navman's Marine Division was acquired by Navico, the world's largest marine electronics company, and is the parent company to leading marine electronics brands: Lowrance, Simrad and B&G. Navico has approximately 1,500 employees globally and distribution in more than 100 countries worldwide. The original core technology and product research and development centre that was Navman remains today intact in the Auckland, New Zealand operation. This is where a number of next generation product platforms are developed and launched for use across the B&G, Lowrance, and Simrad brands.
The Navman brand was discontinued after a period of time in favour of the North American favoured Northstar brand.


Burton upon Trent power station

Burton upon Trent power station supplied electricity to the town of Burton upon Trent and the wider area from 1894 to 1976. It was owned and operated by Burton upon Trent Corporation until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948.  The power station was redeveloped several times: including the incorporation of new plant in the 1910s, in 1924–28 and 1941–43. The station was decommissioned in October 1976.
Not to be confused with West Burton power station which is also on the River Trent.
History.
In 1890 the Burton upon Trent Corporation applied for a Provisional Order under the "Electric Lighting Acts" to generate and supply electricity to the town. This was granted by the Board of Trade and was confirmed by Parliament through the "Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 4) Act 1890" (53 & 54 Vict. c. clxxxix). The power station was built between Wetmore Road and the River Trent (52°48'54"N 1°37'27"W) immediately north of municipal gas works. The power station first supplied electricity in March 1894.
Equipment specification.
The original plant at Burton upon Trent power station comprised horizontal compound engines connected by ropes to ‘Leeds and London’ dynamos. In 1898 the installed generating capacity was 240 kW, and the maximum load was 134 kW. The corporation undertaking had 104 consumers and there were 7,786 lamps on the circuits. The amount of electricity sold that year was 79,574 kWh. The revenue from the sale of electric current was £4,815 and the expenditure on generation and supply was £1,368. This gave an operating profit of £3447 for the Corporation.
Post-war plant.
Following the First World War new plant was installed to meet growing demand for electricity. By 1923 the generating plant comprised:
These machines gave a total generating capacity of 8,400 kW of alternating current and 300 kW of direct current.
Coal was delivered at a railway siding at the power station, this was from a connection on the Derby to Birmingham line.
A variety of electricity supplies were available to consumers as:
New plant.
New low pressure (LP) plant was commissioned in 1924–28 and high pressure (HP) plant in 1941–43.
The working pressures were:
The boilers had a total evaporative capacity of 536,000 lb/h (67.5 kg/s), and supplied steam to:
The completed total installed generating capacity was 43.5 MW, with an output capacity 41 MW MW.
Condenser cooling water was taken from the River Trent.
The electrical switch gear was remote controlled Metro-Vickers.
Operations.
The operating data for the period 1921–23 is shown in the table:
The growth of demand and use of electricity is evident.
Under the terms of the "Electricity (Supply) Act 1926" (16-17 Geo. 5 c. 51) the Central Electricity Board (CEB) was established in 1926. The CEB identified high efficiency ‘selected’ power stations that would supply electricity most effectively; Burton upon Trent was designated a selected station. The CEB also constructed the national grid (1927–33) to connect power stations within a region.
Operating data 1946.
Burton upon Trent power station operating data for 1946 is given below.
The British electricity supply industry was nationalised in 1948 under the provisions of the "Electricity Act 1947" (10-11 Geo. 6 c. 54). The Burton upon Trent electricity undertaking was abolished, ownership of Burton upon Trent power station was vested in the British Electricity Authority, and subsequently the Central Electricity Authority and the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). At the same time the electricity distribution and sales responsibilities of the Burton upon Trent electricity undertaking were transferred to the East Midlands Electricity Board (EMEB).
Operating data 1954–72.
Operating data for the period 1954–72 is shown in the table:
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In 1958 the Burton electricity district supplied an area of 122 square miles and a population of 102,500. The amount of electricity sold and the number and types of consumers was as follows:
Closure.
Burton upon Trent power station was decommissioned on 25 October 1976. The buildings subsequently demolished and the area has been redeveloped with industrial and commercial buildings.


Kodak Harrow

The Kodak Works, Harrow was a photographic manufacturing plant and research and development centre on Headstone Drive, Harrow, North West London. Built by the American Kodak company in 1890, it was their largest factory in the United Kingdom and at its peak in the mid-20th century employed up to 6,000 workers. Production of photographic film ended in 2005 and the plant closed its doors in 2016.
History.
The factory was built in what was then farmland in the hamlet of Wealdstone in Middlesex, directly to the west of the railway line that stops at nearby Harrow & Wealdstone station. Kodak purchased of land and the plant opened in 1891, Kodak's first manufacturing facility outside the United States where production was running in Rochester, New York. Initially the factory developed and printed photographs of clients. In the next 20 years the factory expanded. Eventually film rolls and photographic paper were also being produced at the plant.
Added to the factory was a museum, sports facilities, and a research laboratory which worked in parallel and competed with that in Rochester and other international Kodak centres.
At its peak during the 1950s, about 6,000 workers were employed at the site. The size of the facility was .
As Kodak was starting to struggle amid the rise of digital photography, the Harrow site was in surplus to requirements and was being wound down in the 2000s. Some parts of the site were demolished, others were sold or leased. In 2005, film production ended at all Kodak plants in the UK, and in Harrow 600 jobs were lost. Nevertheless 1,400 employees continued to work at Harrow. Harrow was also planned to become Kodak's UK headquarters; however in 2005 it was decided to keep the headquarters in Hemel Hempstead but at a different site.
Following Kodak's bankruptcy in the U.S. in 2012 the future of the site was unclear. The British spin-off Kodak Alaris took control of the site in 2013 and its association with the original American Kodak ended. At this time, Harrow was the global manufacturer of all Kodak colour negative paper.
Research Laboratory.
The laboratory at Harrow opened in 1929 and at one point served as Kodak's European research centre. The facility closed in the 2000s.
Kodak Museum.
In 1927 a museum was opened at the site. The 1947 published book "The Kodak Museum, A Permanent Exhibition Illustrating the History of Photography and Some of its Applications in Science, Art and Industry" is an illustrated catalogue of the collection at the Kodak Museum. The museum at Harrow closed in 1985; the items are now at the National Science and Media Museum.
The nearby Headstone Manor Museum also has a collection of items relating to the Kodak factory.
Kodak Sports Ground.
The sports ground located on the west side of Harrow View and contiguous with Headstone Manor was made for the employees at the plant and included facilities such as tennis courts and rifle ranges. Kodak F.C. was formed in 1935 for workers at the factory. They currently play at Boxtree Park in the Middlesex County Football League.
During the 2000s as Kodak in Harrow downsized, the sports ground was leased. A leisure centre run by Nuffield Health operated at the grounds but it closed in 2011.
Closure.
On 13 April 2016, Kodak Alaris announced that the Harrow facility will close down, citing "drop in demand coming into the factory". By this time only 250 people were working at the site. It finally closed in December 2016.
The site was purchased by developers Barratt and Hyde who planned to build 2,000 new homes along with new facilities. The development is called Eastman Village, paying homage to the founder of Kodak, George Eastman. The tall chimney of the factory, which has been a local landmark, is being retained.


William Bryson (electrical engineer)

William Alexander Bryson FRSE (2 March 1855 – 9 July 1906), was a Scottish electrical engineer.
Life.
He was born on 2 March 1855, the son of Alexander Bryson and Elizabeth W. Gillespie. His grandfather was Robert Bryson.
His mother died shortly after he was born, and his father, who remarried twice in the meantime, died when he was aged 11. He trained and worked as a Marine Engineer in Leith, and then moved to Glasgow as a consulting Electrical Engineer. There is a sketch of him by John Lavery in the Glasgow Museum Resource Centre.
He managed the lighting for the 1886 Edinburgh International Exhibition, and the Royal Jubilee Exhibition in 1887
In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with his proposers being William Thompson (Lord Kelvin), James Thomson Bottomley, William F King and William Walter James Nicol (inventor of the Kallitype photographic process) .
In 1889 he became a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
He supervised the installation of the Electrical Lighting system at Leith, which had electric lighting by 1890 - relatively early.
He lived at 37 Park Road in the Newhaven district of Edinburgh and had offices at 16 Queen Charlotte Street in Leith.
He died on 9 July 1906. He is buried in Warriston Cemetery. The grave lies on the diagonal path joining the lower vaults to the sealed eastern entrance. The stone is currently (2018) vandalised and is lying on the ground in undergrowth.


Andrey Chokhov

Andrey Chokhov, also spelled Chekhov ("Андрей Чохов (Чехов)" in Russian) (c. 1545 – 1629, allegedly 8 December, Moscow) was a highly prominent Russian cannon and bell caster. He worked in Moscow at the Cannon yard for more than 40 years, where he created a large number (over 20 documented) of heavy weapons, including the Tsar Cannon (cast in 1586). His first documented works were dated to 1568, and the last in 1629. His traditions were continued by the Motorin family.
Biography.
Andrey Chokhov was born in about 1545, and entered the teaching of the well-known master cannon caster Kashpir Ganusov at a very young age, and stood out from the mass of Ganusov's students who performed regular work.
Chokhov took the lead in casting cannons in Moscow in 1590.
Chokhov had many disciples, some of whom later became famed cannon and bell casters themselves, such as Pronya Fedorov, Kondarty Mikhailov, Gregory Naumov, Alexey Nikiforov and others. He died as Master Andrey Chokhov in 1629.
Chokhov as cannon maker.
Andrey Chokhov began his career at the Cannon yard in Moscow during the reign of Ivan the Terrible in the 1550s as an apprentice to a German (?) caster Kashpir Ganusov (russified name). In the 1570s, Chokhov became one of the leading Muscovite casters and supervised production of heavy battering weapons, such as siege arquebus "Лисица" (Vixen) and battering ram "Собака" (Dog) (both made in 1575), big cannon "Волк" (Wolf; 1576-1577), and a colossal arquebus "Инрог" (Unicorn), which would become the largest cannon of the Russian siege artillery (1577; weight - 7,134 kg; displayed in St. Petersburg). In 1586, Andrey Chokhov founded his famous Tsar Cannon (Царь-пушка), a masterpiece of the casting art of the second half of the 16th century. In 1587, he cast a fire arquebus "Егуп" (Yegup), in 1588 - a 100-barrel cannon, in 1590 - battering rams "Троил" (Troilus), "Аспид" (Viper), "Лев" (Lion), "Скоропея" (Witch), and "Соловей" (Nightingale). Chokhov's last major works were big battering arquebuses called "Кречет" (Gyrfalcon) and "Волк" (Wolf), the production of which he supervised in 1627.
Chokhov as bell maker.
Andrey Chokhov is also known as a bell founder.
In 1594 and 1603, he cast two huge bells (called "благовестники", or blagovestniki) weighing 625 poods (10.2 metric tons) and 1,080 poods (17.8 t), correspondingly. These bells were donated by Boris Godunov to the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. In 1621, Andrey Chokhov and other masters cast four bells for the Ivan the Great Bell Tower (one of them called "Глухой" (Muffled) can still be seen in the middle tier of the bell tower). In 1622, Chokhov cast a 20-ton bell called "Реут" (Reut).
His biggest bell weighing 40 tons (cast in 1600) didn't survive to this day, as well as the so-called "Godunov Bell" (also known as Old Assumption Bell, or Resurrection Bell), which would be destroyed by fire in 1701.


Garrett Snuff Mill

Garrett Snuff Mill, also known as the George W. Helme Company, is a historic snuff tobacco mill complex located at Yorklyn, New Castle County, Delaware. The complex includes 14 contributing buildings built between 1846 and 1901. The buildings are architecturally unified as most are built of brick, with the two earliest mills constructed of stone. The Garrett family introduced the manufacture of snuff to Delaware. The complex housed a snuff manufacturing operation until 1954.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The buildings were later incorporated into the Garrett Snuff Mills Historic District.


Anpara Thermal Power Station

Anpara Thermal Power Station is located at Anpara in Sonbhadra district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about from Varanasi on the Varanasi - Shakti Nagar route. It has a total power-generation capacity of 3850 MW using 9 units.
Operations.
There are in total nine operational units, all of which are coal-fired thermal power stations. The machinery for the UPRVUNL's Anpara A ( 3 units of 210MW each) are from Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited. UPRVUNL'S Anpara B (two units of 500 mW each) from Toshiba Corporation, Japan. Machinery for Anpara C were sourced by Lanco power from Dongfang Electric Company (China). Machinery for UPRVUNL'S Anpara D (2 units of 500 MW Each) is sourced from BHEL.
The coal to all these units is fed from Kharia, Kakri and Beena open coal mines of NCL by company owned freight trains, a merry go round system maintained by UPRVUNL and previously on roads by Dumpers.
Capacity.
In year 2007 Anpara C was allotted to be constructed in PPP sector domain. The new 2x600MW power plant made under PPP By Lanco Infratech. On 13 November 2019 there was a blast in Anpara D due to accidental leakage of hydrogen gas from the generator of 500 MW unit and made two 500 MW units out of operation. The blast was so intense and severe that the generator of one of the unit simply turned into pieces and four assistant engineers who were in control room suffered splinter and burn injuries.


Solvay Indupa

Solvay Indupa is an Argentine petrochemical company formerly owned by Solvay. It was considering selling this business to Braskem, but the project was rejected by the Brazilian competition authority. Solvay Indupa is one of the largest petrochemical companies in Latin America. The company is headquartered in Buenos Aires and has a Brazilian office located in São Paulo.
Since december 2016, it is owned by Unipar Carbocloro.
History.
Indupa ("Indústrias Patagonicas") was established in Río Negro Province (Argentina) on September 16, 1948, and became a leading local producer of chlorine, Polyvinyl chloride resins (PVC), and caustic soda. It relocated operations to the petrochemical center in Bahía Blanca in 1986; but an economic crisis in subsequent years forced it into government receivership in 1993. Re-privatized in 1995 to a consortium led by Dow Chemical, Indupa was acquired in 1996 by Brussels-based Solvay, which owns a 51% stake. The company, in turn, acquired Solvay do Brasil and its Santo André facility (opened in 1941) in 1998.
In 2013 Solvay accepted to sell Solvay Indupa for Brazilian giant petrochemical company Braskem, the largest petrochemical company in Latin America, but this sale was refused by the Brazilian competition authority. In 2016, Unipar Carbocloro purchased 70.59% of the company, while committing to a Public takeover bid on the remainder of the stock.
Dioxin Contamination.
In 1998 Indupa Solvay was involved in a European dioxin crisis as it delivered highly contaminated (20-100 times higher than normal) lime milk for the use in Brazilian citrus pulp pellets. These pellets were distributed as feed for European cattle farms. The contamination was discovered by a German monitoring program that found dioxin trends increasing in butter, milk and meat samples starting in February 1998.
Moreover, recent studies have shown that the landfill and downstream area at the Indupa Solvay plant are still highly contaminated and have most probably affected the sediments and the flood plains of the Rio Grande (Paraná River) area.


NTPL Thermal Power Station

NTPL Thermal Power Station is a 1000 MW (2×500 MW) coal-based thermal plant in the Tuticorin District of Tamil Nadu. The project is a joint venture of TANGEDCO and NLC India Limited. The units were commissioned in March and April 2015, respectively.


Giral Lignite Power Plant

Giral Lignite Power Plant (GLPL)or Giral Lignite Thermal Power Station (GLTPP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (RRVUNL). RRVUNL is a state government (Level 2 government in India) owned corporation working in field of power generation
Power plant.
The thermal power station has installed capacity of 250 MW. Two identical units of 125 MW each, are built by Senbo Engineering Limited (SEL) on EPC basis with an estimated cost of Rs. 1690 Crores. It is a pit head plant. The fuel is lignite coal, which is procured from the mines just behind the plant. The fuel is supplied by Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals Limited (RSMML). An additive to fuel is limestone, which is added in pulverised form to the lignite, for the purpose of neutralising the sulphur Oxides (SOx), Sulphur Oxides are formed as a byproduct of combustion of lignite containing sulphur as its constituent. Limestonne is also supplied by RSMML. Lignite cost is nearly Rs400 per MT.
This is the first plant of the country which is using Lime with lignite to control SOX level.
It was developed in 2 stages.