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Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn (1901–1974), born Leiser-Itze Schmuilowsky, was an American architect trained at the University of Pennsylvania whose monumental, light-filled buildings include the Salk Institute, Kimbell Art Museum, and National Assembly Building in Dhaka.
Louis Landweber
Louis Landweber (1912–1998) was an American hydrodynamicist and naval architect who built the University of Iowa's ship hydrodynamics program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan, also known as Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924), was a Chicago architect of the firm Adler & Sullivan who shaped the early skyscraper and coined "form ever follows function."
Louis T. Rader
Louis T. Rader was an American electrical engineer and executive who led computer and process-control businesses at GE, Univac, and ITT, then taught at the University of Virginia.
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton is a French luxury house founded in 1854 in Paris by trunk maker Louis Vuitton, known for its Monogram canvas and leather goods, and is the flagship brand of LVMH.
Louis-Jean Résal
Louis-Jean Résal (1854–1919) was a French bridge engineer of the corps des Ponts et Chaussées who designed the pont Mirabeau and pont Alexandre III in Paris.
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) is Louisiana's state agency for highways, bridges, ports, and public transportation, headquartered in Baton Rouge and led by a Secretary.
Louisiana Energy Access Project Pipeline
The Louisiana Energy Access Project Pipeline (LEAP) is a 150-mile natural gas gathering pipeline in Louisiana, owned and operated by DT Midstream and fully in service since August 2020.
Louisiana Intrastate Gas (LIG) Pipeline
The Louisiana Intrastate Gas (LIG) Pipeline is a natural gas gathering and transmission system in Louisiana, founded in 1955 and running from the Haynesville area to the Gulf Coast.
Louisiana LNG
Louisiana LNG (LALNG), formerly the Driftwood LNG project, is an under-construction LNG export terminal in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, developed by Woodside Energy with first exports expected in 2029.
Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure
The Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure (LONI), originally the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, is a fiber-optic research and education network connecting Louisiana's major universities to each other and to Internet2.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, known as the L&N, was a Class I railroad chartered in Kentucky in 1850 and merged into the Seaboard System in 1982.
Louisville Gas and Electric Company
Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) is a regulated electric and gas utility headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, incorporated in 1913 and owned by PPL Corporation since 2010.
Louisville sewer explosions
The Louisville sewer explosions were a series of underground blasts that tore through Old Louisville, Kentucky, on February 13, 1981, after hexane from a Ralston-Purina soybean plant leaked into sewers.
Louisville Slugger
Louisville Slugger is a brand of baseball and softball bats, best known for wood bats made in Louisville, Kentucky, since 1884 and owned by Wilson since 2015.
Louisville Water Tower
The Louisville Water Tower, also known as the Louisville Water Company Pumping Station, is a historic 185-foot water tower in Louisville, Kentucky, operating since 1860.
Loukkos irrigation scheme
The Loukkos irrigation scheme is a large-scale irrigated agriculture perimeter in northwest Morocco, supplied by the Oued El Makhazine dam and managed by the regional office ORMVAL.
Lounge bridges and wind-and-rain bridges of China
Lounge bridges (lángqiáo, "corridor bridge") are Chinese timber bridges carrying roofed galleries, including woven-arch bridges in Fujian and Zhejiang and Dong and Miao wind-and-rain bridges.
Louvain method
The Louvain method is a greedy heuristic algorithm for detecting communities in large graphs by maximizing modularity, proposed by Blondel, Guillaume, Lambiotte, and Lefebvre in 2008.
Louvre Palace
The Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) is a former royal residence in Paris begun as a fortress under Philippe Auguste around 1190, now housing the Louvre, the world's most-visited museum.
Louvre Pyramid
The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a glass pyramid by I. M. Pei at the Louvre in Paris, inaugurated in 1989 as the museum's main entrance.
Lovable (company)
Lovable, first known as GPT Engineer, is a Stockholm AI company founded in 2023 by Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin that generates and hosts full-stack web apps from plain-language descriptions.
Love bracelet (Cartier)
The Love bracelet is an oval gold bangle designed by Aldo Cipullo for Cartier New York in 1969, recognizable by screw motifs and originally fastened only by someone other than the wearer.
Love egg
A love egg, also called an egg vibrator or vibrating egg, is a small egg-shaped vibrator small enough to be fully inserted, controlled by buttons, a wireless remote, or a smartphone app.
Love hotel
A love hotel (ラブホテル, rabu hoteru) is a type of short-stay hotel found chiefly in Japan that rents rooms to couples by the hour or for a night.
Lovehoney
Lovehoney is a British sexual wellness company founded in 2002 and based in Bath, England, selling sex toys, lingerie, and lubricants; since 2021 it has formed the core of Lovehoney Group.
Lovense
Lovense (爱感) is a Hong Kong-based sex technology brand founded in 2010 that makes internet-connected, app-controlled sex toys and the Lovense Remote app, reporting more than 20 million users.
Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant
The Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant (Loviisan ydinvoimalaitos) is Finland's first nuclear power plant, on Hästholmen island near Loviisa, with two VVER-440 reactors operating since 1977 and 1980.
Lovot
Lovot is a wheeled home companion robot from Tokyo startup GROOVE X, unveiled in December 2018, giving emotional presence through touch, warmth, and gaze rather than performing tasks.
Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability
The Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) is an FAA system that automates drone pilots' requests to fly in controlled airspace, returning approvals in near real time.