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Ingersoll Rand
Ingersoll Rand Inc. is a diversified American manufacturer of air compressors, pumps, vacuum equipment, and blowers, headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina and selling under more than 90 brands.
Ingestible origami robot
The ingestible origami robot, developed at MIT and presented in 2016, unfolds from a swallowed ice capsule in the stomach and is steered by external magnetic fields.
Ingeteam
Ingeteam is a Spanish company headquartered in Zamudio, Spain, founded in 1972 and merged into its present form in 1989, making power electronics and generators for wind and solar energy worldwide.
INGETEC S.A.
INGETEC S.A., also known as Ingetec S.A. Ingenieros Consultores, is a Colombian consulting engineering firm founded in 1947 and headquartered in Bogotá, known for dams, hydropower, and highways.
Inglis Hi-Power
The Inglis Hi-Power is a Canadian-made copy of the Belgian Browning Hi-Power 9 mm pistol, produced by John Inglis and Company in Toronto from 1944 to 1945.
Ingmar H. Riedel‐Kruse
Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse is a synthetic biologist and biophysicist, professor at the University of Arizona, known for sperm vortex arrays and bacterial cell-cell adhesion programming.
Ingot
An ingot is a mass of metal cast into a shape like a bar, plate, or sheet, convenient to store, transport, and work into a finished product.
Ingot casting
Ingot casting pours molten metal into individual reusable molds that solidify into ingots, later rolled or forged; it was the standard steelmaking route for over a century.
Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro, originally founded as Micro D, is one of the largest American technology distributors, based in Irvine, California and serving channel partners in about 160 countries.
Ingredion
Ingredion Incorporated is an American ingredient solutions company in Westchester, Illinois, formed in 1906 as the Corn Products Refining Company and renamed in 2012, with about $7.2 billion in sales.
Ingres (database)
Ingres is a relational database management system that began at UC Berkeley in 1973, used the QUEL query language, and survives as the Actian Ingres commercial product.
Ingrid Daubechies
Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian-born American mathematician, professor emerita at Duke University, whose wavelet constructions made wavelet analysis a practical tool for image processing, earning the Wolf Prize in 2023.
Inguri Dam
The Inguri Dam, also called the Enguri Dam (Georgian: ენგურჰესი), is a concrete arch dam on the Inguri River in northwestern Georgia, completed in 1980 and among the tallest dams in the world.
Ingush tower
An Ingush tower is a medieval stone tower of mountainous Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, built from the 12th to the 18th century as dwelling, fortress, or both.
Inheritance (object-oriented programming)
Inheritance, also known as class inheritance or type inheritance, is an object-oriented programming mechanism whereby a subclass acquires the members of a superclass, reusing and extending its code.
INI file
An INI file, also called an initialization file, is a plain-text configuration file storing program settings as key-value pairs grouped into sections, originating with early Windows.
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (1573–1652) was an English architect and Surveyor of the King's Works who introduced classical Palladian architecture to England through the Queen's House, Greenwich, and the Banqueting House, Whitehall.
Init
Init, short for initialization, is the first user-space process an operating system kernel starts after boot, traditionally /sbin/init, running as process ID 1 and starting all services.
Initial orders (EDSAC)
The initial orders were the start-up program of EDSAC, the Cambridge computer, written by David Wheeler in 1949 and widely described as the first assembler.
Initialization vector
An initialization vector (IV), also called a starting variable, is a data block that some block cipher modes require as an additional input alongside the key and plaintext.
Initiated chemical vapor deposition
Initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) is an all-dry thin-film method, developed at MIT beginning in the 1990s, in which vaporized monomers polymerize on cool substrates to form conformal polymer films.
Injectable hydrogels
Injectable hydrogels are water-loving polymer networks injected by syringe or catheter that gel in place, serving as platforms for tissue engineering and delivering drugs, immunotherapies, and cells.
Injection mold
An injection mold is a tool, usually made of hardened steel or aluminum, that shapes molten plastic into a finished part under pressure in a hollow cavity until it solidifies.
Injection molding
Injection molding is a manufacturing process in which molten material is injected under pressure into a closed mold and solidified, best suited to high-volume production of plastic parts.
Injection molding machine
An injection molding machine is an industrial machine that manufactures plastic parts by melting polymer pellets and injecting the melt under pressure into a closed mold, where it cools into the cavity's shape.
Injection moulding
Injection molding, also called plastic injection molding, is a manufacturing process that injects molten polymer into a closed mold, where it cools into a finished part.
Injector
An injector is a steam-driven appliance with no moving parts that forces feedwater into a steam boiler against its own pressure, invented by Henri Giffard in 1858.
Ink
Ink is a liquid or paste of pigments or dyes dispersed in a vehicle, used for writing since antiquity and for printing, where formulations must match each press, substrate, and drying method.
InKind
inKind is an Austin, Texas-based fintech platform that gives restaurants upfront cash in exchange for food and beverage credit sold to diners through its app.
Inkjet printing
Inkjet printing is a digital, non-impact method that deposits liquid ink droplets onto a substrate to create images. It is used in consumer desktop printers and industrial applications.