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Maurel & Prom
Maurel & Prom is a French oil and gas exploration and production company, founded in 1831 as a shipping business and now majority-owned by Indonesia's Pertamina.
Maurice Apstein
Maurice Apstein, born May 5, 1910, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was an American engineer who led the Guided Missile Fuze Laboratory at the Harry Diamond Laboratories and held fourteen patents in instrumentation, electronics, and ordnance devices.
Maurice C. Fuerstenau
Maurice C. Fuerstenau (1933–2012) was an American mineral processing researcher known for froth flotation chemistry and hydrometallurgy, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Maurice E. Shank
Maurice Edwin "Bud" Shank (1921–2012) was an American metallurgist and aerospace engineer who led development of single-crystal turbine blades at Pratt & Whitney and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983.
Maurice Herlihy
Maurice Herlihy is a computer scientist and An Wang Professor at Brown University who defined linearizability, proved the consensus hierarchy, introduced transactional memory, and won the Dijkstra Prize three times.
Maurice M. Sevik
Maurice M. Sevik (1923–2011) was a Turkish-born American engineer who led the Navy's acoustic silencing of combatant ships and nuclear submarines, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Maurice Magnien
Maurice Magnien (1920–2001) was a French electrical engineer, Inspecteur général at EDF and head of the CGE's Marcoussis laboratory, who co-founded the Association pour l'histoire de l'électricité.
Maurice Roy
Maurice Roy (1899–1985) was a French mechanician, a pioneer of jet propulsion, director general of ONERA from 1949 to 1962, and president of the French Academy of Sciences in 1966.
Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Wilkes (1913–2010) was a British computer scientist who led the building of EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer, at Cambridge in 1949, and invented microprogramming.
Mauricio Futran
Mauricio Futran is a chemical engineer who led pharmaceutical process development at Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Janssen, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Mauricio Terrones
Mauricio Terrones is a Mexican physicist at Penn State known for research on carbon nanotubes and 2D materials, and head of its physics department since 2023.
Mauritania Railway
The Mauritania Railway is a 704 km heavy-haul railway carrying iron ore from the mines at Zouérate to the Atlantic port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania's only railway.
Maury Muehleisen
Maury Muehleisen, born Maurice Muehleisen, was an American guitarist and songwriter from Trenton, New Jersey, best known as Jim Croce's lead guitarist; he died in the 1973 plane crash that killed Croce.
Mauser
Mauser is a German firearms manufacturer from Oberndorf am Neckar, founded by Wilhelm and Peter Paul Mauser. The company is best known for its Model 98 bolt-action rifles.
Mauser BK-27
The Mauser BK-27 (Bordkanone 27) is a 27mm revolver autocannon developed by Mauser in Germany, standard on the Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon and also used in naval mounts.
Mauser C96
The Mauser C96, commonly called the broomhandle Mauser, is a semi-automatic pistol produced by Waffenfabrik Mauser in Oberndorf, Germany, from 1896 until the late 1930s, with more than one million made.
Mauser M71/84
The Mauser M71/84, officially the Infanterie-Gewehr Modell 1871/84, was a German bolt-action military rifle with an eight-round tubular magazine, adopted in 1884 as Germany's first repeating service rifle and produced until 1887.
Mauser Model 1871
The Mauser Model 1871, or Gewehr 71, was the first successful rifle designed by the Mauser brothers, a single-shot bolt action adopted by Prussia in 1871 and built in numbers over 1.8 million.
Mauser Model 1904
The Mauser Model 1904, officially the Espingarda 6,5 mm m/1904 and known as the Mauser-Vergueiro, was a bolt-action rifle adopted by the Portuguese Army in 1904.
Mauser Standardmodell
The Mauser Standardmodell was a short bolt-action rifle built on the Model 98 action, secretly produced in Switzerland and the direct predecessor of the Karabiner 98k.
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is an unfinished Timurid mausoleum-mosque in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, built by order of Timur over the 12th-century tomb of the Sufi poet Ahmed Yasawi.
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (秦始皇陵) is the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, near Xi'an, and home of the Terracotta Army.
MÁV
MÁV (Magyar Államvasutak, Hungarian State Railways) is the Hungarian state-owned railway company, founded in 1869, operating about 7,275 km of track and most passenger trains.
Maven Central
Maven Central, also called the Central Repository, is the primary public repository for Java and JVM build artifacts, hosted by Sonatype and used by default by Maven and Gradle.
Mavic (bicycle component manufacturer)
Mavic, from Manufacture d'Articles Vélocipédiques Idoux et Chanel, is a French bicycle component manufacturer founded in 1889 in Lyon, known for clincher rims and UST tubeless wheels.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an educational software program that teaches touch typing, first released in 1987 by The Software Toolworks, and one of the best-selling educational software titles of all time.
MAVLink
MAVLink (Micro Air Vehicle Link) is a binary telemetry protocol for exchanging messages between drones and ground control stations, released in 2009 by Lorenz Meier.
MAVProxy
MAVProxy is an open-source command-line ground control station and MAVLink proxy for drones, written in Python, developed by CanberraUAV for the 2012 Outback Challenge and widely used with ArduPilot.
MAVSDK
MAVSDK is an open-source C++ library providing a high-level API to MAVLink, the communication protocol used by drones, created in 2016 in the Dronecode ecosystem.
Mawan power station
Mawan power station (深圳能源妈湾电厂) is a coal- and gas-fired power station in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China, built between 1993 and 2003 and now being replaced with gas and ultra-supercritical coal units.