Technology and the built world

Gorilla Armor

Gorilla Armor is a smartphone cover material by Corning that combines scratch-resistant glass with an anti-reflective surface, debuting on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra in 2024.

Gorilla Energy

Gorilla Energy is an energy drink brand produced by Gorilla Drinks Limited, founded in 2008 and sold in 29 countries, with its strongest market in Kazakhstan.

Gorilla Glue

Gorilla Glue is a moisture-activated polyurethane adhesive sold in North America since the mid-1990s by the Gorilla Glue Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, known for its 100% waterproof bond.

Gorimir G. Chernyi

Gorimir G. Chernyi, full name Gorimir Gorimirovich Chernyi, was a Soviet and Russian mechanician and full academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences known for hypersonic gas dynamics.

Gorizont (Горизонт) was a series of Soviet and Russian geostationary communications satellites built by NPO PM, carrying television, telephone, and maritime traffic, including Intersputnik service, from 1978 to 2000.

Gorky-Center Gas Pipeline

The Gorky-Center Gas Pipeline (Russian: газопровод «Горький — Центр») is a Russian natural gas pipeline running from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast toward Moscow, in service since 1974.

Gorleben salt dome

The Gorleben salt dome (Salzstock Gorleben) is a rock salt formation in Lower Saxony, Germany, explored for decades as a possible repository for high-level radioactive waste.

Gorm oil and gas field

Gorm (Danish: Gormfeltet) is an oil field in the Danish sector of the North Sea about 200 km west of Esbjerg, discovered in 1971 and brought on stream in 1981.

Gorman-Rupp

Gorman-Rupp is an American pump manufacturer headquartered in Mansfield, Ohio. Founded in 1933 by J.C. Gorman and H.E. Rupp, it makes pumps for water, wastewater, and industrial markets.

Goryeo architecture

Goryeo architecture is the building tradition of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), centered on palace and Buddhist temple construction; wars destroyed most work, leaving chiefly temple halls.

Goryeo bell casting

Goryeo bell casting is the bronze casting of Korean Buddhist temple bells, or beomjong, during the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), which kept the Silla style in smaller forms.

Goryeo metal movable type

Goryeo metal movable type (고려 금속활자) is cast bronze printing type developed in Korea's Goryeo dynasty, first recorded in 1234; the oldest surviving metal-type book, Jikji, was printed in 1377.

Goryeo military technology

Goryeo military technology (고려 군사기술) is the weapons, armory system, and gunpowder program of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), which defeated Japanese pirates at Jinpo in 1380.

Goryeo printing

Goryeo printing is the printing culture of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), combining large-scale woodblock printing of the Buddhist canon with the earliest documented movable metal type in 1234.

Goryeo shipbuilding

Goryeo shipbuilding (고려 조선술) was the shipbuilding tradition of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), marked by flat-bottomed hulls joined with wooden pegs and grooved clinker seams.

Goryōkaku

Goryōkaku (五稜郭) is a star fort in Hakodate, Hokkaido, completed in 1864, and the final stronghold of shogunate forces in the Battle of Hakodate in 1869.

Göschenen (nuclear waste site)

Göschenen was a proposed site for a deep Swiss nuclear waste repository in crystalline granite, which Nagra abandoned in the 1990s in favor of Opalinus Clay.

Goseong Green power station

Goseong Green power station (고성그린파워), also known as the Goseong Hai Thermal Power Plant, is a 2,080 MW coal-fired power station in Goseong, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant

The Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant (Kernkraftwerk Gösgen, KKG) is a Swiss pressurized water reactor in Däniken, canton of Solothurn, supplying about 13 percent of winter electricity since 1979.

Gossip protocol

A gossip protocol, also called an epidemic protocol, is a decentralized communication method in which nodes periodically exchange state with random peers, spreading updates like an epidemic.

Göta Canal

Göta kanal: 190 km Swedish canal waterway from Sjötorp on Lake Vänern to Mem near the Baltic, 58 locks, built 1810–1832 by Baltzar von Platen with Thomas Telford; now a state-owned tourist waterway.

Gotha Go 242

The Gotha Go 242 was a German military transport glider of World War II, built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik to carry 23 troops or freight such as a light howitzer.

Götheborg (ship)

Götheborg was an East Indiaman of the Swedish East India Company, launched in 1738, that sank just outside Gothenburg in 1745 after a voyage to Canton.

Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture, also called Opus Francigenum, is a European building style that emerged in northern France in the 12th century, defined by pointed arches and flying buttresses.

Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival architecture, also called Neo-Gothic or Victorian Gothic, revives medieval Gothic forms like pointed arches; it flourished in 18th- and 19th-century Britain and beyond.

Gotion (国轩高科)

Gotion High Tech (国轩高科), also known as Guoxuan High-Tech, is a Chinese lithium-ion battery manufacturer founded in 2006 in Hefei; Volkswagen has been its largest shareholder since 2021.

Gotland-class submarine

The Gotland-class submarine (Gotlandsklass), type A19, is a class of three diesel-electric attack submarines built by Kockums for the Royal Swedish Navy starting in 1996.

GoTo (company)

GoTo is an Indonesian technology holding company, formed in May 2021 by the merger of Gojek and Tokopedia, that operates ride-hailing, payments, and e-commerce services.

GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting is a web-hosted video conferencing and online meeting service with HD video, screen sharing, chat, recording, and transcription, launched by Citrix Systems in 2004 and now sold by GoTo.