Technology and the built world

Hanesbrands

Hanesbrands was an American apparel company headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, spun off from Sara Lee in 2006 and known for Hanes, Bali, Playtex, and Maidenform.

Hanfeng power station

Hanfeng power station (邯峰发电厂) is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Handan, Hebei, China, with two 660 MW units owned by Huaneng-led Hanfeng Power Generation since 2001.

Hanford Site

The Hanford Site, also known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, is a 586-square-mile Department of Energy reservation in southeastern Washington that produced most of America's weapons plutonium.

Hang gliding

Hang gliding, also known as deltaplane, is an air sport in which a pilot foot-launches an unpowered fabric wing and controls flight by shifting body weight against a control bar.

Hang Hau Longyan power station

Hang Hau Longyan power station (神华福能龙岩发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Longyan, Fujian, China, operating two 300 MW circulating fluidized bed units commissioned in 2009 and 2010.

A hangar, also called an aircraft or airplane hangar, is a large enclosed building for storing, maintaining, and servicing aircraft, built with a clear-span design and no interior columns across its door opening.

Hanging Rock energy facility

The Hanging Rock Energy Facility is a natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Lawrence County, Ohio, near Ironton, and one of the largest gas-fired generators in Ohio.

Hangzhou Banshan power station

Hangzhou Banshan power station (杭州半山发电厂), also called Banshan power plant, is a gas-fired station on the Grand Canal in Kangqiao, northern Hangzhou, China, founded in 1959.

Hangzhou Bay Bridge

Hangzhou Bay Bridge (杭州湾跨海大桥) is a 36 km six-lane cross-sea expressway bridge in eastern China linking Jiaxing and Ningbo, opened in 2008 as the world's longest cross-sea bridge.

Hangzhou Jiufeng Waste-to-Energy Plant

The Hangzhou Jiufeng Waste-to-Energy Plant (杭州九峰垃圾焚烧发电项目) is a municipal waste incineration power station in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, China, operated by China Everbright International since 2017.

Hanji

Hanji (한지) is the traditional handmade paper of Korea, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry and prized for lasting over 1,000 years.

Hankyu Corporation

Hankyu Corporation (阪急電鉄) is a Japanese private railway company founded by Ichizo Kobayashi in 1907, operating a 143.6 km network radiating from Osaka-Umeda to Kobe, Takarazuka, and Kyoto.

Hankyu Hanshin Holdings

Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. (阪急阪神ホールディングス株式会社) is a Japanese holding company in Osaka, formed in 2006, that owns the Hankyu and Hanshin railway groups and businesses in real estate and entertainment.

Hanna Breunig

Hanna M. Breunig is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory whose technoeconomic and life-cycle analyses evaluate hydrogen storage, bioenergy, and carbon removal; she became HyMARC co-director in 2022.

Hanna Reitsch

Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and test pilot who set about 40 gliding and powered-flight records, tested the Me 163 rocket interceptor, and flew into besieged Berlin in 1945.

Hannah Dailey

Hannah Dailey is an American mechanical engineer at Lehigh University who builds patient-specific computer models of broken bones from CT scans and received a 2025 PECASE award.

Oct 26, 2026

Hannes Mühleisen

Hannes Mühleisen is the German-born computer scientist who co-created DuckDB with Mark Raasveldt at CWI Amsterdam and co-founded DuckLabs (formerly DuckDB Labs), which joined AWS in 2026.

Hannover Messe

Hannover Messe is an annual industrial trade fair in Hannover, Germany, first held in 1947 and billed as the world's largest manufacturing industry trade fair.

Hannskarl Bandel

Hannskarl Bandel (1925–1993) was a German-American structural engineer known for long-span and tensile structures, including the Gateway Arch with Eero Saarinen and Chicago's Marina City.

Hannu Häkkinen

Hannu Häkkinen, born in 1962, is a Finnish computational nanoscientist and professor at the University of Jyväskylä, known for the superatom theory of ligand-protected gold clusters.

Hanomag

Hanomag (Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG) was a German engineering company in Hannover founded in 1835, known for steam locomotives, early small cars, tractors, trucks, and construction machinery.

Hanqing Jiang

Hanqing Jiang (姜汉卿) is a Chinese-born mechanical engineer, Chair Professor at Westlake University since 2021 after fifteen years at Arizona State University, known for work on lithium dendrites and origami metamaterials.

Hans Albert Einstein

Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973) was a Swiss-born American hydraulic engineer, son of physicist Albert Einstein, whose 1950 bed-load function became a standard method for predicting sediment transport in rivers.

Hans Bleich

Hans Bleich (1909–1985) was an Austrian-born civil engineer and applied mechanician who first applied shakedown theory in 1932 and spent his career as professor of civil engineering at Columbia University.

Oct 10, 2026

Hans Görges

Hans (Johannes) Görges (1859–1946) was a German electrical engineer who led the three-phase system at Siemens & Halske and held the first electrical engineering chair at TH Dresden.

Hans J. Briegel

Hans J. Briegel, also known as Hans Briegel, is a German theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Innsbruck, known for co-creating the one-way quantum computer and quantum machine learning.

Hans K. Fauske

Hans Kare Fauske (1935–2021) was a Norwegian-born American chemical engineer who founded Fauske & Associates in 1980 and was an authority on fast breeder reactor safety.

Hans List

Hans List (1896–1996) was an Austrian engineer who built his career on the internal combustion engine, founding the Graz firm that became AVL and editing a 14-volume engine reference series.

Hans Mark

Hans Mark (1929–2021) was a German-born American aerospace engineer who directed NASA Ames, served as Secretary of the Air Force, and led the University of Texas System.