Technology and the built world

David V. Anderson

David V. Anderson is an American electrical engineer and Georgia Tech professor known for embedded signal processing research and for receiving the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

David W. Fowler

David W. Fowler (David Wayne Fowler) is an American civil engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

David W. Roop

David W. Roop is an American electric power systems engineer who spent 43 years at Dominion Energy and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

David Warren (inventor)

David Ronald de Mey Warren (1925–2010) was an Australian research scientist who invented the 'black box' flight recorder in Melbourne in the 1950s; recorders are now mandatory worldwide.

David Watson Taylor

David Watson Taylor (1864–1940) was an American naval architect and rear admiral who built the first US ship-model testing basin and served as Chief Constructor of the Navy in World War I.

Davide Scaramuzza

Davide Scaramuzza is an Italian roboticist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for his group's drone beating FPV racers in 2023 and automotive vision research.

DAVINCI

DAVINCI is a NASA Discovery Program mission to Venus with a descent sphere that will plunge through the atmosphere to the surface, selected in 2021.

DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is a post-production application from Blackmagic Design combining editing, color correction, visual effects, and audio post production, with a free version and a paid Studio edition.

Davis L. Ford

Davis L. Ford (1937–2023) was an American environmental engineer in Austin, Texas, who worked on water pollution control and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.

Davis station (MBTA)

Davis station is a rapid transit station on the MBTA Red Line in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, opened in 1984 and still the city's only subway station.

Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station

Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station is a single-unit nuclear plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, licensed in 1977 and known for the 2002 discovery that boric acid corroded its reactor vessel head.

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Tucson, Arizona, established in 1925, home to the 355th Wing and the Boneyard, which stores about 5,000 retired military aircraft.

Davorin D. Hrovat

Davorin D. Hrovat is an automotive control engineer who spent 1981 to 2015 at Ford and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

Davy Crockett (nuclear device)

The Davy Crockett was an American tactical nuclear weapon system, a recoilless rifle firing the M388 projectile with the W54 warhead, in service from 1961 to 1971.

Davy Jones's locker

Davy Jones's locker is a nautical idiom for the bottom of the ocean as the grave of all who perish at sea, first recorded in Daniel Defoe's writing in 1726.

Davy lamp

The Davy lamp, or Davy safety lamp, is a miners' flame safety lamp invented by Sir Humphry Davy in 1815 to light coal mines without igniting firedamp.

Dawei Wang

Dawei Wang (王大伟) is an electrochemical energy storage researcher known for lithium–sulfur batteries, carbon electrodes, and supercapacitors, now a chair professor at Shenzhen University of Technology.

Dawn (spacecraft)

Dawn was a NASA Discovery Program spacecraft that used ion propulsion to orbit Vesta and Ceres between 2011 and 2018, the first to orbit a dwarf planet.

Dawn Harvest Solar

Dawn Harvest Solar, formally the Dawn Harvest Solar Energy Center, is a 150 MW solar and battery facility in Rock County, Wisconsin, being acquired by We Energies and other utilities.

Dawn Song

Dawn Song is an American computer scientist, a professor at UC Berkeley and 2010 MacArthur Fellow, known for work in computer security, AI safety, and agentic AI, who founded Oasis Labs and Menlo Security.

Dawn-dusk orbit

A dawn-dusk orbit is a sun-synchronous orbit that stays aligned with the day-night terminator, so the satellite crosses the equator around 6 a.m. or 6 p.m. in perpetual sunrise or sunset.

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Dawon Kahng

Dawon Kahng (강대원) was a Korean-born electrical engineer at Bell Labs who co-invented the MOSFET in 1960 and the floating-gate cell behind flash memory in 1967.

Dawson Complex

The Dawson Complex is an open-cut steelmaking coal mine in the Dawson Valley, Bowen Basin, Central Queensland, owned by Anglo American and Mitsui and operating since 1961.

Dawson gas plant

The Dawson gas plant is a natural gas processing complex operated by ARC Resources in the Montney play of northeast British Columbia, built between 2010 and 2020.

Day cab

A day cab is a semi-truck tractor built without a sleeping compartment behind the driver's seat, designed for local and regional hauling where drivers return home each shift.

Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant

The Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant (大亚湾核电站) is a two-reactor station in Guangdong, China, and China's first large-scale commercial nuclear power plant, supplying much of its power to Hong Kong.

Dayforce

Dayforce, formerly Ceridian, is a human capital management software company combining payroll, HR, workforce management, and talent on one database; it was acquired by Thoma Bravo for about $12.3 billion in 2026.

Daylight harvesting

Daylight harvesting is a lighting control strategy in which a photosensor measures daylight and automatically dims or switches off electric lighting to maintain a target illuminance level.

Daylighting

Daylighting is the use of windows, skylights, and other apertures to admit natural light into buildings for illumination and temperature regulation, reducing electric lighting and heating and cooling costs.