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Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
Manley Hot Springs is a census-designated place in interior Alaska, built around thermal springs at the end of the Elliott Highway, 160 road miles west of Fairbanks.
MANN+HUMMEL
MANN+HUMMEL is a German family-owned filtration company founded in 1941 and headquartered in Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart, employing more than 20,000 people at over 80 sites worldwide.
Manned Maneuvering Unit
The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) was a nitrogen-propelled backpack, built by Martin Marietta for NASA, that let astronauts fly untethered from the Space Shuttle. First flown in 1984, it was used to retrieve satellites.
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was a classified 1960s US Air Force and NRO program to place two-man crews on a reconnaissance space station, canceled in 1969 without flying.
Mannequin
A mannequin, also called a manikin or lay figure, is a figure of the human body used to display or fit clothing in shop windows, workshops, and museums.
Mannesmann
Mannesmann was a German industrial conglomerate founded in 1885 on the invention of seamless steel tube rolling, later Germany's mobile phone leader until the Vodafone takeover of 2000.
Mannlicher M1895
The Mannlicher M1895, also written M95 or Mannlicher wz. 1895, was the standard straight-pull bolt-action rifle of the Austro-Hungarian Army and its principal infantry rifle during World War I.
Manor house
A manor house, or havezate, is the dwelling of the lord of the manor, from which a medieval landholder administered his estate; some were fortified, and many survive in England.
Mansa Devi Temple, Haridwar
Mansa Devi Temple, also called Mansa Devi Mandir or Bilwa Teerth, is a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Mansa Devi atop Bilwa Parvat in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India.
Mansard roof
The mansard roof, also known as the French or curb roof, is a roof with two slopes on each of its four sides, popularized by François Mansart.
Mansion
A mansion is a very large, expensive dwelling house, historically the chief residence of a lord or landowner; the term also covers London's Mansion House apartment blocks.
Mansion House
Mansion House, City of London: official residence and office of the Lord Mayor of London, Palladian building by George Dance the Elder, 1739–1753, Grade I listed 1950; also namesakes in Dublin, York, and St. Louis.
Manson Benedict
Manson Benedict was an American nuclear engineer who led the gaseous diffusion process for uranium separation at Oak Ridge's K-25 plant and became MIT's first professor of nuclear engineering.
Mansory
Mansory (MANSORY Design & Holding GmbH) is a German vehicle tuning company founded by Kourosh Mansory in 1989, known for extensive carbon-fiber customization of luxury and performance cars.
Mansouri Oil Field
Mansouri Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, about 40 km south of Ahvaz, discovered in the early 1960s and producing since 1974.
Manston Airport
Manston Airport, formerly Kent International Airport, is a former RAF station and civil airport in Thanet, east Kent, England, whose regular operations ceased in May 2014.
MANTA (software)
MANTA (Manta Software Inc., manta.io) is an automated data lineage platform founded in 2016 by Tomas Kratky, spun off from Profinit; it scans databases, ETL, and BI tools to map data flows. Raised $52M, acquired by IBM on 24 October 2023 and folded into watsonx governance.
Manta ray foraging optimization
Manta ray foraging optimization (MRFO) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm that mimics manta rays' chain, cyclone, and somersault feeding behaviors to solve engineering optimization problems.
Mantaro hydroelectric plant
The Mantaro hydroelectric plant (Central Hidroeléctrica del Mantaro), usually called the Mantaro Hydroelectric Complex, is a 1,008 MW storage-type hydropower scheme in Peru's Huancavelica region, the country's largest after 2012.
Mantine
Mantine is an open-source React components library written in TypeScript and MIT-licensed, developed by Vitaly Rtishchev, with more than 100 components, hooks, and first-party packages for forms, dates, and charts.
Mantis shrimp-inspired impact composites
Mantis shrimp-inspired impact composites are engineered materials whose helicoidal and graded architectures copy the mantis shrimp's dactyl club, where twisting cracks absorb impact energy, improving toughness over conventional layups.
Mantle cloak
A mantle cloak is an electromagnetic cloaking device: a thin patterned metasurface wrapped around an object whose induced currents cancel the object's scattered field, proposed by Andrea Alù in 2009.
Manu Prakash
Manu Prakash is a bioengineer at Stanford University whose frugal-science inventions include the Foldscope, a paper microscope costing under a dollar, and the 20-cent paperfuge centrifuge; he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.
Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware
Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) is an AASHTO crash-testing standard, first published in 2009, giving uniform guidelines for testing guardrails, bridge rails, crash cushions, and work zone barriers.
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is the Federal Highway Administration's national standard for traffic signs, signals, and markings, first published in 1935.
Manual telephone exchange
A manual telephone exchange is a telephone switching system where an operator connects calls by plugging cords into jacks at a switchboard, standard from 1878 until automation displaced it.
Manual thumb safety
A manual thumb safety is a manually operated firearm safety positioned for the trigger-hand thumb, blocking the trigger, sear, or hammer, as on the Colt M1911.
Manual transmission
A manual transmission, also called a stick shift, is a vehicle gearbox where the driver selects gears with a shifter and a foot-operated clutch, once the default but now rare in new cars.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum, born 1938 in Caracas, Venezuela, is an American theoretical computer scientist who won the 1995 Turing Award for work on computational complexity theory and cryptography.
Manuel Elices
Manuel Elices, full name Manuel Elices Calafat, is a Spanish materials scientist and emeritus professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, known for pioneering fracture mechanics in Spain.