Technology and the built world

LAV III

The LAV III, or LAV Kodiak, is an eight-wheeled armored vehicle built by General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada for the Canadian Army, based on the Swiss MOWAG Piranha III.

LAV-25

The LAV-25 (Light Armored Vehicle, 25 millimeter) is an eight-wheeled, amphibious armored reconnaissance vehicle of the US Marine Corps, armed with a stabilized 25 mm automatic cannon.

Lava International

Lava International Limited is an Indian mobile handset company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Noida, making feature phones, smartphones, and wearables under the Lava brand.

Lava lamp

A lava lamp is a decorative lamp in which wax blobs rise and fall through heated liquid, invented by Edward Craven Walker in Britain in 1964.

Lavarand

Lavarand was a Silicon Graphics hardware random number generator, patented in 1996, that produced random seeds by photographing lava lamps and hashing the digitized images.

Laverda

Laverda is an Italian motorcycle brand founded in 1949 in Breganze, best known for its 1970s twins and triples like the 750 SFC and Jota.

Lavochkin La-15

The Lavochkin La-15, NATO name "Fantail", was a Soviet single-engine jet fighter built by Lavochkin's design bureau that lost to the MiG-15; 235 aircraft were completed in 1949.

Lavochkin La-5

The Lavochkin La-5, early examples designated LaG-5, was a Soviet single-seat fighter of World War II, created in 1942 by fitting the LaGG-3 airframe with a Shvetsov M-82 radial engine.

Law of Demeter

The Law of Demeter, or Principle of Least Knowledge, is an object-oriented design guideline, formulated in 1987, under which a method talks only to its immediate friends.

Lawe-Lawe Oil Pipeline

The Lawe-Lawe oil pipeline is a crude oil pipeline and terminal system at Lawe-Lawe, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, supplying the Balikpapan Refinery as part of Pertamina's refinery expansion.

Lawn mower

A lawn mower is a machine that cuts grass to a uniform height, first patented by Edwin Budding in England in 1830, now powered by hand, gasoline, electricity, or batteries.

Lawnchair Larry flight

The Lawnchair Larry flight was an unauthorized 1982 balloon flight by Larry Walters, who rose to 16,000 feet over Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by 42 helium balloons.

Lawrence B. Curtis

Lawrence B. "Buck" Curtis was an American petroleum engineer at Conoco, widely credited as the father of the tension-leg platform and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

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Lawrence C. F. Horle

Lawrence C. F. Horle (1892–1950) was an American electrical engineer who led radio standardization, served as IRE president in 1940, and received the IRE Medal of Honor in 1948.

Lawrence Carin is an American machine-learning researcher and Duke University professor known for Bayesian compressive sensing, who co-founded Signal Innovations Group and Infinia ML and was KAUST provost from 2020 to 2023.

Lawrence D. Burns

Lawrence D. Burns is an American automotive engineer who spent roughly forty years at General Motors, led its research and planning from 1998 to 2009, and later advised Waymo.

Lawrence E. Jenkins

Lawrence E. "Larry" Jenkins (1933–1996) was an American electrical engineer and Lockheed executive who developed the Agena satellite's precision attitude control system and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.

Lawrence E. Swabb Jr.

Lawrence E. Swabb Jr. is a chemical engineer who worked at Exxon Research and Engineering on coal gasification and liquefaction, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Lawrence G. Griffis

Lawrence G. Griffis, known as Larry Griffis, is an American structural engineer at Walter P Moore in Houston, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Lawrence H. Skromme

Lawrence H. Skromme (1913-2012) was an American agricultural engineer who rose to vice president of engineering at Sperry-New Holland and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Lawrence L. Kazmerski

Lawrence L. Kazmerski is an electrical engineer who became the first photovoltaics staff member at SERI, NREL's predecessor, in 1977 and led its solar cell measurement work.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a US Department of Energy national laboratory in Livermore, California, founded in 1952 to advance nuclear weapons science and technology.

Lawrence R. Glosten

Lawrence R. Glosten (1918–2010) was an American naval architect who founded The Glosten Associates in Seattle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.

Lawrence Rabiner

Lawrence Rabiner, born 1943 in Brooklyn, is an American electrical engineer who developed the chirp z-transform and hidden Markov modeling of speech at Bell Labs.

Lawrence Roberts (computer scientist)

Lawrence Roberts was an American computer scientist who supervised the ARPANET, the packet-switching precursor to the Internet, and later founded the first commercial packet-switched carrier, Telenet.

Lawrence Sperry

Lawrence Burst Sperry was an American aviation pioneer, son of gyrocompass inventor Elmer Sperry, who demonstrated the first practical aircraft autopilot in 1914, winning a French safety competition.

Lawrence Stamper Darken

Lawrence Stamper Darken (1909–1978) was an American metallurgist who directed U.S. Steel's Edgar C. Bain Laboratory and formulated the Darken equations for diffusion in binary metallic systems.

Lawrenceburg power station

The Lawrenceburg power station is a 1,232 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on the Ohio River, operating since 2004 and selling into the PJM wholesale market.

LawZero Canada–Germany funding

LawZero Canada–Germany funding is a joint commitment of up to CAD $300 million announced in September 2026 to fund Yoshua Bengio's Montréal-based AI safety nonprofit LawZero.