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Dehler
Dehler is a German sailboat brand founded by electrical engineer Willi Dehler in 1963 in Freienohl, Sauerland, which has built more than 25,000 performance cruising yachts.
Dehloran Oil Field
The Dehloran Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Ilam Province, northwestern Iran, near the Iraqi border, discovered in 1972 with reserves of 550 million barrels.
Dehumidifier
A dehumidifier is a device that removes water vapor from air, most commonly a home appliance that condenses moisture onto a refrigerated coil and collects the water.
Deichmann
Deichmann, formally DEICHMANN SE, is a German family-owned footwear retailer headquartered in Essen. Founded in 1913, it has grown into Europe's largest shoe retailer with around 4,700 stores.
Deicing boot
A deicing boot is an inflatable rubber membrane bonded to aircraft wing leading edges that cracks off ice when inflated, invented by William C. Geer in 1930.
Deinking
Deinking is the process of removing printing ink and contaminants from recycled paper fibers, mainly by washing and flotation, so the recovered pulp can make new paper.
Deir Ali power station
The Deir Ali power station is a natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant south of Damascus, Syria, built in two phases to about 1,500 MW.
Deirdre Meldrum
Deirdre R. Meldrum is an American electrical engineer who advanced automated DNA sequencing and single-cell analysis, a University of Washington professor who became Dean of Engineering at Arizona State University.
Deji Akinwande
Deji Akinwande is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, known for inventing atomristors, the first silicene transistor in 2015, and graphene electronic tattoo sensors.
Deke Slayton
Deke Slayton, born Donald Kent Slayton, was an American Mercury astronaut grounded for a heart condition who assigned crews and flew on Apollo-Soyuz in 1975.
DEKRA
DEKRA is a Stuttgart-based German testing, inspection, and certification company founded in 1925, best known for vehicle inspections, with about 48,000 employees in 60 countries.
Delage
Delage was a French luxury automobile maker founded in 1905 by engineer Louis Delâge, which won the 1914 Indianapolis 500 and built coachbuilt luxury cars until 1953.
Delahaye
Delahaye was a French automobile manufacturer founded by engineer Émile Delahaye in Tours in 1894, best known for the 1930s luxury and competition cars built on its Type 135 chassis.
Delair
Delair (Delair SAS) is a French developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems, founded in Toulouse in 2011 and known for long-endurance fixed-wing mapping drones.
Delamination wear
Delamination wear is a wear mechanism in which thin, flake-like particles detach from sliding metal surfaces through cracks forming below the surface, proposed by Nam P. Suh at MIT in 1973.
DeLaval (company)
DeLaval is a Swedish company, headquartered in Tumba near Stockholm, that develops milking equipment, feeding, and herd-management technology for dairy farms; it dates to 1883.
DeLaval VMS
DeLaval VMS (Voluntary Milking System) is a robotic milking system by Sweden's DeLaval of Tumba, introduced in 1998 and among the first commercial automatic milking systems.
Delaware and Hudson Canal
The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 108-mile privately built canal from Honesdale, Pennsylvania, to Rondout on the Hudson River, carrying anthracite coal to market from 1828 to 1898.
Delaware and Raritan Canal
The Delaware and Raritan Canal is a historic 44-mile canal in central New Jersey, opened in 1834 to link Bordentown on the Delaware River to New Brunswick.
Delaware Aqueduct
The Delaware Aqueduct is an 85-mile water tunnel built between 1937 and 1944 that carries drinking water from Rondout Reservoir to New York City, supplying about half the city's needs.
Delaware Department of Transportation
The Delaware Department of Transportation, known as DelDOT, is Delaware's cabinet-level transportation agency, created in 1976, which plans, builds, and maintains state highways, transit through DART First State, and motor vehicle services.
Delaware Express Pipeline
The Delaware Express Pipeline is a crude oil gathering system in the southern Delaware Basin of West Texas, connecting basin production to the Wolfcamp Connector System.
Delaware Memorial Bridge
The Delaware Memorial Bridge is a pair of twin suspension spans carrying I-295 and US 40 across the Delaware River between New Castle, Delaware, and Pennsville, New Jersey.
Delaware-class battleship
The Delaware class was a pair of American dreadnought battleships, USS Delaware and USS North Dakota, completed in 1910 and scrapped under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, known as the Lackawanna, was an American railroad carrying anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania between Hoboken and Buffalo from 1853 to 1960.
Delay analysis
Delay analysis is the examination of construction schedules and factual records to determine when project delay occurred, its causes, and its effect on completion, underpinning extension-of-time claims and disputes.
Delay line
A delay line is a device that deliberately delays a signal through a medium like mercury or cable; it served as main memory in early 1940s and 1950s computers.
Delay spread
Delay spread is a measure of how much a radio channel spreads a transmitted signal in time, given by the spread of multipath echo delays at the receiver.
Delay-and-sum beamformer
A delay-and-sum beamformer is a signal processing method that delays each sensor's signal by an amount set by the array geometry and pointing direction, then sums them, so waves from the steered direction add coherently.
Delay-locked loop
A delay-locked loop is a feedback control loop that keeps a local copy of a PRN code aligned with the incoming signal, the code-tracking loop of GPS receivers.