Technology and the built world

Kampilan

The kampilan is a long, single-edged sword of the southern Philippines, about a meter long, with a flared tip and split open-jawed pommel, favored by Maranao and Maguindanao nobles.

Kamuthi Solar Power Project

The Kamuthi Solar Power Project is a 648 MW solar photovoltaic power plant at Kamuthi in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the Adani Group and commissioned in 2016.

Kanaka Durga Temple (కనక దుర్గ)

Kanaka Durga Temple (కనక దుర్గ), administered as Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Varla Devasthanam, is a Hindu temple on Indrakeeladri hill beside the Krishna river in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Kanana (카나나)

Kanana (카나나) is a Korean-language AI assistant developed by Kakao, launched as a standalone app in 2025 and since embedded as an on-device AI service inside KakaoTalk, Korea's dominant messenger.

Kanazawa Phonograph Museum

The Kanazawa Phonograph Museum (金沢蓄音器館) is a city-run museum in Kanazawa, Japan, opened in 2001, holding one of Japan's leading collections of antique phonographs and SP records.

Kanban (カンバン)

Kanban (カンバン) is a card-based production control system developed at Toyota in which a card on each container of parts authorizes its production or transport, limiting work-in-process inventory.

Kanban (看板) (development)

Kanban (看板) is a software development method that manages work flow on visual boards with work-in-progress limits, adapted from lean manufacturing and defined by David J. Anderson's 2010 book.

Kanda power station (苅田バイオマス発電所), also called Kanda Biomass Power Plant, is a 75 MW biomass-fired power station in Kanda-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, developed by the Kansai Electric Power group.

Kandariya Mahadeva Temple (कंदारिया महादेव मंदिर)

The Kandariya Mahadeva Temple (कंदारिया महादेव मंदिर) is a Hindu temple to Shiva at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, central India, and the largest and tallest of the surviving Khajuraho temples.

Kandhkot Oil and Gas Field

The Kandhkot Oil and Gas Field is a natural gas field in Kashmore District, Sindh, Pakistan, discovered in 1959 and operated by Pakistan Petroleum Limited.

Kandinsky

Kandinsky is a family of open text-to-image and video diffusion models developed by Sber, with versions reaching up to 19B parameters and featuring native Russian prompt support.

Kane's method

Kane's method, introduced by Thomas R. Kane of Stanford University in 1961, derives equations of motion for multibody systems without constraint forces or Lagrange multipliers.

Kang Liang

Kang Liang is an Australian materials scientist and professor at UNSW Sydney known for metal-organic framework coatings that protect enzymes, proteins, DNA, and cells, and for nanobiohybrids.

Kang Xu

Kang Xu (许康) is a battery electrochemist known for the 2015 water-in-salt electrolyte, two decades at the US Army Research Laboratory, and standard reference reviews of electrolytes.

Kangan Gas Field

The Kangan Gas Field is an onshore natural gas and condensate field in southern Iran, discovered in 1973, producing since 1980, and operated by the South Zagros Oil and Gas Production Company.

Kangol

Kangol is a British headwear brand founded in 1938 by Jacques Spreiregen, best known for its knitted wool caps and its place in 1980s hip-hop fashion.

Kangping power station

Kangping power station is a coal-fired power station in Kangping County, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, operating two 600 MW units since 2009 and heating the county town.

Kani's method

Kani's method, also called the rotation contribution method, is an iterative method for analyzing indeterminate beams and rigid frames, developed by German engineer Gasper Kani in 1947.

Kanianthra Mani Chandy

Kanianthra Mani Chandy, known as K. Mani Chandy, is a computer scientist and emeritus professor at Caltech, known for the distributed snapshot algorithm with Leslie Lamport.

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Kanishka Biswas

Kanishka Biswas is an Indian solid state chemist and professor at JNCASR in Bengaluru who develops thermoelectric materials that convert waste heat into electricity, winning the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

Kannan Ramchandran

Kannan Ramchandran is an electrical engineer and information theorist, professor of EECS at UC Berkeley since 1999, known for distributed source coding, distributed video coding, and regenerating codes for storage.

Kannur International Airport (കണ്ണൂർ അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര വിമാനത്താവളം)

Kannur International Airport, also known as Kannur Airport (കണ്ണൂർ അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര വിമാനത്താവളം), is an international airport at Mattannur in Kerala, India, opened in December 2018 as the state's fourth international airport.

Kano River Irrigation Project

The Kano River Irrigation Project, also known as KRIP, is a large gravity irrigation scheme in Kano State, northern Nigeria, supplied with water from Tiga Dam on the Kano River.

Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港)

Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) is Japan's first 24-hour international airport, built on an artificial island off Osaka and opened in 1994 to relieve Osaka International Airport.

Kansas City International Airport

Kansas City International Airport, coded MCI from its original name Mid-Continent International Airport, is a commercial airport 15 miles northwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, opened in 1972.

Kansas City National Security Campus

The Kansas City National Security Campus is a Department of Energy facility in Kansas City, Missouri, producing most nonnuclear components, over 80%, of U.S. nuclear weapons.

Kansas City Southern

Kansas City Southern was an American Class I freight railroad connecting the central United States with Mexico, acquired by Canadian Pacific in 2023 to form CPKC.

Kansas Department of Transportation

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), headquartered in Topeka, is the Kansas state agency overseeing highways, transit, aviation, and rail, successor to the Kansas State Highway Commission created in 1917.

Kanshan power station

Kanshan power station (国家电投上海电力贾汪发电厂) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Jiawang, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, with two 600 MW ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2006 and 2007.