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Lost-foam casting
Lost-foam casting, also called evaporative pattern casting or full mold casting, vaporizes an expanded polystyrene pattern embedded in unbonded sand as molten metal is poured, replacing it exactly.
Lost-wax casting
Lost-wax casting, also called investment casting or cire perdue, is a metal-forming process in which a wax model is melted out of a mold and replaced by molten metal.
LOT Polish Airlines
LOT Polish Airlines, also known as Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT, is Poland's state-owned flag carrier, founded in 1928 and based at Warsaw Chopin Airport in Warsaw.
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921–2017), born Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh, was an Azerbaijani-born American computer scientist at UC Berkeley who founded fuzzy set theory in his 1965 paper "Fuzzy Sets."
Lötschberg Base Tunnel
The Lötschberg Base Tunnel (Lötschberg-Basistunnel) is a 34.6-kilometer Swiss railway tunnel opened in 2007, running beneath the Bernese Alps between Frutigen and Raron as the first base tunnel of the New Rail Link through the Alps.
Lotte World Tower (롯데월드타워)
Lotte World Tower (롯데월드타워), also known as Lotte Tower, is a 555-meter, 123-story mixed-use skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea, opened in 2017 as the country's tallest building.
Lottery ticket hypothesis
The lottery ticket hypothesis is a 2018 deep learning conjecture by Jonathan Frankle and Michael Carbin: dense random networks contain sparse winning-ticket subnetworks that train to full accuracy alone.
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program released in January 1983 by Lotus Development Corporation for the IBM PC, named for its three combined functions: spreadsheet, graphics, and database management.
Lotus Carlton
The Lotus Carlton, sold in continental Europe as the Lotus Omega, is a 377 bhp high-performance version of the Vauxhall Carlton saloon built by Lotus from 1990 to 1992.
Lotus Cars
Lotus Cars, also known as Group Lotus, is a British sports car and engineering company founded by Colin Chapman in 1948 and based at Hethel, Norfolk.
Lotus Cortina
The Lotus Cortina, known to Ford as the Cortina Lotus, is a high-performance Ford Cortina developed by Lotus under Colin Chapman, launched in January 1963.
Lotus Éclat
The Lotus Éclat, also known as Lotus Type 76 or Type 84, is a British 2+2 fastback coupé made by Lotus Cars from 1975 to 1982 as a fastback-tailed sister to the Elite.
Lotus Elan
The Lotus Elan (Type 26) is a two-seat Lotus sports car built from 1962 to 1973, Lotus's first commercial success and a benchmark for sports-car handling.
Lotus Elise
The Lotus Elise is a lightweight two-seat mid-engined roadster built by Lotus Cars at Hethel, England, from 1996 to 2021, known for its bonded aluminum chassis and handling.
Lotus Esprit
The Lotus Esprit is a mid-engine British sports car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and built by Lotus at Hethel, Norfolk, from 1976 to 2004, famous as James Bond's submarine car.
Lotus Evora
The Lotus Evora is a mid-engined 2+2 sports car built by Lotus Cars at Hethel, Norfolk, from 2009 to 2021. It was named evo Car of the Year 2009.
Lotus Exige
The Lotus Exige is a two-seat, mid-engine sports coupé produced by Lotus Cars at Hethel, Norfolk, from 2000 to 2021, developed from the Lotus Elise.
Lotus Temple
The Lotus Temple, also known as the Bahá'í House of Worship, Delhi, is a lotus-shaped temple in New Delhi, India, completed in 1986 to a design by Fariborz Sahba.
Louis Anthony Cox Jr.
Louis Anthony Cox Jr. is an American risk and decision analyst, founder of Cox Associates in Denver and University of Colorado professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, formerly Moisant Field, is the primary commercial airport of Louisiana, located in Kenner about 10 miles west of downtown New Orleans.
Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron
Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (1837–1920) was a French physicist who invented the subtractive three-color process of photography, patented in 1868 and described in his 1869 book.
Louis B. Rosenberg
Louis B. Rosenberg is an American engineer and inventor who created Virtual Fixtures, an early augmented reality system for the US Air Force in 1992, and founded Unanimous AI.
Louis Blériot
Louis Blériot, full name Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, was a French aviator who made the first airplane flight across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, in 1909.
Louis C. Parrillo
Louis C. Parrillo is an American semiconductor process technologist who developed Twin Tub CMOS and later served as chief technology officer of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector.
Louis Carl Lundstrom
Louis Carl Lundstrom was an American engineer at General Motors who pioneered full-scale vehicle crash testing of highway hardware and vehicle crashworthiness, including guardrails and the energy-absorbing steering column.
Louis Charles Breguet
Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955) was a French aircraft designer, builder, and pilot who founded his aviation company in 1911 and created the Breguet 14, one of the most widely produced aircraft of the First World War.
Louis Durlofsky
Louis Durlofsky is an engineer at Stanford University who studies subsurface flow, known for reservoir modeling and optimization techniques that earned him National Academy of Engineering election in 2022.
Louis F. Coffin
Louis F. Coffin, Jr. was an American mechanical engineer at General Electric in Schenectady whose work on metal fatigue produced the Coffin–Manson equation for low-cycle fatigue life.
Louis H. Roddis Jr.
Louis H. Roddis Jr. (1918–1991) was an American naval officer and nuclear engineer who worked under Admiral Rickover on the first nuclear submarines and led Consolidated Edison.
Louis Hachette Group
Louis Hachette Group is a French media and publishing company created in December 2024 to combine Lagardère and Prisma Media, named after publisher Louis Hachette (1800–1864).