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Stanley Donald Stookey
S. Donald Stookey (1915–2014) was an American materials scientist at Corning Glass Works who invented glass-ceramics, the crystallized glass behind CorningWare cookware, and the photochromic glass used in eyeglass lenses.
Stanley H. Horowitz
Stanley H. Horowitz (1925–2022) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at American Electric Power in power system protection and coauthored the standard textbook Power System Relaying.
Stanley Hiller
Stanley Hiller Jr. was an American helicopter designer who at 18 built and flew the XH-44, the first successful coaxial-rotor helicopter in the United States, and founded Hiller Aircraft.
Stanley I. Sandler
Stanley I. Sandler is an American chemical engineering thermodynamicist who spent his career at the University of Delaware and is known for research on phase equilibria and a widely used thermodynamics textbook.
Stanley Morison
Stanley Morison (1889–1967) was an English typographer and type historian who directed the design of Times New Roman, first used by The Times of London in 1932.
Stanley Motor Carriage Company
The Stanley Motor Carriage Company, known for the Stanley Steamer, was an American maker of steam automobiles run by twin brothers F.E. and F.O. Stanley from 1902 to 1924.
Stanley T. Rolfe
Stanley T. Rolfe (1934–2023) was an American civil engineer at the University of Kansas who applied fracture mechanics to steel structure design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.
Stanlow Refinery
Stanlow Refinery is an oil refinery at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, on the Manchester Ship Canal, owned by EET Fuels and producing about one-sixth of Britain's transport fuels.
Stanmore Resources
Stanmore Resources Limited, formerly Stanmore Coal Limited, is an Australian metallurgical coal mining company headquartered in Brisbane that operates Bowen Basin mines supplying global steelmakers.
Stansted Express
The Stansted Express is a dedicated train service linking London Liverpool Street with Stansted Airport, operated by Greater Anglia with a journey time of about 48 minutes.
Stantec
Stantec is a Canadian consulting firm founded in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1954 by Don Stanley, providing design, engineering, and environmental services through 34,000 employees in over 450 locations.
Stanwell Corporation
Stanwell Corporation is a Queensland Government Owned Corporation that generates, trades, and retails electricity. Established in 1997, it operates coal-fired power stations at Rockhampton and the South Burnett.
Stanwell power station
Stanwell power station is a coal-fired power station 22 km west of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, owned by Queensland's Stanwell Corporation and supplying around 15% of the state's electricity.
Stapler
A stapler is a mechanical device that drives a metal staple through paper and bends its legs to hold sheets together; the office stapler emerged from US patents in the 1860s and 1870s.
Stapleton International Airport
Stapleton International Airport, also called Stapleton Airport, served Denver, Colorado as its main airport from 1929 until it closed in 1995, replaced by Denver International Airport.
STaR
STaR (Self-Taught Reasoner) is a 2022 method in which a language model improves its reasoning by fine-tuning on its own chain-of-thought rationales, kept only when they reach correct answers.
Star Alliance
Star Alliance is the world's first and largest global airline alliance, launched in 1997 by five airlines led by United and Lufthansa, with 26 member airlines and over 1,150 destinations.
Star Energy Geothermal
Star Energy Geothermal is an Indonesian geothermal energy producer operating the Wayang Windu, Salak, and Darajat fields in West Java, supplying 886 MW to the Java-Madura-Bali grid.
Star Ferry
The Star Ferry (天星小轮) is a passenger ferry service crossing Victoria Harbour between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, run under the same name since 1898.
Star Model B
The Star Model B is a Spanish 9 mm semi-automatic pistol made by Star Bonifacio Echeverría in Eibar and closely modeled on the Colt M1911.
Star network
A star network is a network topology in which every node connects directly to a central hub, switch, or concentrator, and all data passes through that central device.
Star of India (ship)
The Star of India is an iron sailing ship launched in 1863 as Euterpe, now preserved at the Maritime Museum of San Diego as the world's oldest active sailing ship.
Star schema
The star schema is a data warehouse design in which a central fact table holding numeric measurements joins directly to surrounding dimension tables, favored for fast analytical queries over the more normalized snowflake schema.
Star Tours
Star Tours is a Star Wars-themed motion simulator ride at Disney parks, created with George Lucas and opened at Disneyland in 1987, reimagined in 2011 as Star Tours: The Adventures Continue.
Star tracker
A star tracker is an optical instrument on a spacecraft that measures its orientation by imaging stars and matching them against an onboard star catalog.
Star, tree and hypertree network topologies
Star, tree, and hypertree topologies arrange network links in a hierarchy: stars connect devices to one central node, trees connect star groups, and hypertrees add cross-links.
Starbase
Starbase is a city in Cameron County, Texas, at the southern tip of the state near the Mexico border, incorporated in May 2025 around SpaceX's Boca Chica launch site.
Starbug (autonomous underwater vehicle)
Starbug is a family of small, low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles developed at Australia's CSIRO, notable as one of the first AUVs designed with vision as its primary navigation sensor.
Starburst Data
Starburst Data is an American data analytics company founded in Boston in 2017 that builds commercial products on Trino, the open source distributed SQL query engine.
Starcloud
Starcloud is an American aerospace startup founded in January 2024 by Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, and Adi Oltean to build orbital data centers for AI compute.