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Millwall brick
Millwall brick: an improvised club-like weapon made by tightly rolling and folding a newspaper, named for Millwall FC hooligans, created in the late 1960s when stadium searches banned conventional weapons.
Millwright
A millwright is a craftsperson who installs, dismantles, repairs, and moves industrial machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites, usually after a 3- or 4-year apprenticeship.
Milne Point Oil and Gas Field
Milne Point is an oil and gas field on the Alaska North Slope, about 30 miles northwest of Prudhoe Bay, discovered in 1969 and producing heavy crude.
MILNET
MILNET (Military Network) was the unclassified data communications network of the US Department of Defense, created in 1982 by partitioning ARPANET and forming the Defense Data Network core.
Milo C. Bell
Milo C. Bell (1905–1998) was an American fisheries and hydraulic engineer who designed the Hell's Gate fishways on the Fraser River and fish-passage facilities at Columbia River dams.
Milo E. Riverso
Milo E. Riverso is an American civil engineer and construction executive, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026, who led STV Group and the New York City School Construction Authority.
Milo S. Ketchum
Milo S. Ketchum (Milo Smith Ketchum Jr., 1910–1999) was an American structural engineer known for thin-shell concrete roofs and space frames, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.
Milrem THeMIS
The Milrem THeMIS (Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System) is a tracked unmanned ground vehicle built by Milrem Robotics of Tallinn, Estonia, first shown in 2015.
Milrem Type-X
The Milrem Type-X is an Estonian tracked robotic combat vehicle unveiled in 2020, the first produced in Europe, designed as an unmanned wingman for tanks.
Milstar
Milstar (Military Strategic and Tactical Relay) is a United States military satellite communications system providing secure, jam-resistant communications, with five satellites launched between 1994 and 2003.
Milton Brumer
Milton Brumer (1902–1999) was an American civil engineer who served as chief engineer and later president of Ammann & Whitney, responsible for major suspension bridges including the Walt Whitman and Throgs Neck.
Milton C. Edlund
Milton C. Edlund (Milton Carl Edlund) was an American nuclear engineer who invented spectral shift reactor control and built the nuclear engineering program at Virginia Tech.
Milton Carl Edlund
Milton Carl Edlund (1924–1993) was an American nuclear engineer who co-wrote the first authoritative book on nuclear reactor theory and led Virginia Tech's nuclear engineering program.
Milton E. Harr
Milton E. Harr (1925–2024) was an American geotechnical engineer and longtime Purdue University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for pioneering probabilistic soil mechanics.
Milton E. Wadsworth
Milton E. Wadsworth (1922–2013) was an American extractive metallurgist at the University of Utah, known for hydrometallurgy and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Milton Edward Harr
Milton Edward Harr (1925–2024) was an American geotechnical engineer and emeritus Purdue professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for pioneering probabilistic soil mechanics.
Milton H. Ward
Milton H. Ward, known as Milt Ward, was an American mining engineer who directed development of the Grasberg mine in Indonesia and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Milton Levenson
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, Milton Levenson was a nuclear engineer known for his work on fast reactor technology and fuel reprocessing.
Milton Pikarsky
Milton Pikarsky (1924-1989) was an American civil engineer and transportation administrator who served as Chicago's commissioner of public works and later chaired the Chicago Transit Authority and the Regional Transportation Authority.
Milvus (vector database)
Milvus is an open-source, cloud-native vector database developed by Zilliz and hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation, built for fast similarity search over billions of embeddings of text, images, and audio.
Milwaukee Road
The Milwaukee Road was the common name of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a Class I railroad running from Chicago to Puget Sound from 1847 until 1985.
Milwaukee Road 261
Milwaukee Road 261 is an ALCO-built 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotive of 1944, retired in the mid-1950s, restored to operation in 1993, and running Upper Midwest excursions since.
Milwaukee Tool
Milwaukee Tool, formally the Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, is an American manufacturer of power tools founded in 1924, known for the Sawzall and its M12 and M18 cordless systems.
MIM-14 Nike Hercules
The MIM-14 Nike Hercules was a US Army surface-to-air missile deployed from 1958 to defend American cities against Soviet bomber attack, the first armed with a nuclear warhead.
Mimar Sinan
Mimar Sinan, also known as Koca Mimar Sinan Agha, was chief architect of the Ottoman Empire for nearly half a century, serving Süleyman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III.
MIMD
MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) is a class of computer architecture, defined in Flynn's 1966 taxonomy, where multiple processors independently execute different instructions on different data.
MIME
MIME, the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, is a set of Internet standards that describes file format through media types, originally designed in the early 1990s to extend email beyond plain ASCII text.
Mimeograph
The mimeograph, also called a stencil duplicator, is a low-cost duplicating machine that forces ink through a perforated stencil onto paper, common in offices and schools until the 1960s.
Mimic Technologies
Mimic Technologies was a Seattle medical simulation company founded by Jeff Berkley in 2001, known for the dV-Trainer simulator for the da Vinci Surgical System.
MimicGen
MimicGen is a system from NVIDIA Research, introduced at CoRL 2023, that synthesizes over 50,000 robot demonstrations from about 200 human demonstrations by adapting them in simulation.