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Kantanagar Temple
Kantanagar Temple, also known as Kantaji Temple or Kantajew Temple, is a Hindu temple in Dinajpur, Bangladesh, built between 1704 and 1722 and famed for its terracotta plaques.
Kanti Jain
Kanti Jain is an electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who invented excimer laser lithography, now the dominant technology for manufacturing microchips.
Kanyi Pu
Kanyi Pu (浦侃裔; Kan-Yi Pu) is a Singapore-based biomedical engineer and President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University, known as the inventor of molecular afterglow imaging nanoparticles.
Kanzhun Ltd
Kanzhun Ltd is a Cayman Islands holding company providing online recruitment in China through its BOSS Zhipin app, the country's largest recruitment platform, listed on Nasdaq as BZ.
Kaohsiung Metro (高雄捷运)
Kaohsiung Metro, also known as Kaohsiung MRT, is the rapid transit system of Kaohsiung, the largest city in southern Taiwan, operated by KRTC with Red and Orange Lines opened in 2008.
Kaoru Ishikawa
Kaoru Ishikawa (石川馨, 1915–1989) was a Japanese quality control expert and University of Tokyo professor who created the fishbone diagram, led Japan's quality circle movement, and shaped company-wide quality control.
Kapaleeshwarar Temple (கபாலீஸ்வரர் கோவில்)
Kapaleeshwarar Temple (கபாலீஸ்வரர் கோவில்), Mylapore, Chennai: a Dravidian Shiva temple with a 37-m gopuram, Pallava origins, 16th-century Portuguese destruction, Vijayanagar restoration, and a 4-acre rain-fed temple tank.
Kapar CCGT
The Kapar CCGT is a planned 2,100 MW combined cycle gas turbine power plant in Kapar, Selangor, Malaysia, to be built by TNB with operation by 2031.
Kapchagay Reservoir (Қапшағай бөгені)
Kapchagay Reservoir (Қапшағай бөгені, also spelled Kapshagay) is a large reservoir on the Ili River in southeastern Kazakhstan, formed by a hydroelectric dam completed in 1970.
Kapellbrücke
The Kapellbrücke, or Chapel Bridge, is a 205-meter covered wooden footbridge crossing the Reuss River diagonally in Lucerne, Switzerland; dating to around 1365, it is Europe's oldest surviving wooden bridge.
Kaphong Oil and Gas Field
Kaphong is an oil and gas field in the Pattani basin of the Gulf of Thailand, discovered in 1976 and long operated by Unocal Thailand, now Chevron.
Kaplan turbine
The Kaplan turbine is an axial-flow water turbine with adjustable runner blades for low-head, high-flow hydropower, invented by Austrian engineer Viktor Kaplan and patented in 1913.
Kappa (rocket)
The Kappa was a family of Japanese solid-propellant sounding rockets developed from 1956 by the University of Tokyo under Hideo Itokawa, flown until 1988 and foundation for later Lambda and Mu rockets.
Kappa architecture
Kappa architecture, proposed by Jay Kreps in 2014, processes all data as streams over a replayable immutable log such as Kafka, replacing Lambda's dual batch and speed pipelines with one codebase and log replay for reprocessing.
Kaprun disaster
The Kaprun disaster, also called the Kaprun funicular fire, was a tunnel fire on 11 November 2000 in Austria that killed 155 people and left 12 survivors.
KAPS (pipeline system)
KAPS, short for Key Access Pipeline System, is a natural gas liquids and condensate pipeline in Alberta, Canada, running about 575 kilometers and placed in service in 2023.
Kapsula Kosmosa
Kapsula Kosmosa (Russian for "Cosmos capsule") was the catalog name for the autonomous Nauka science modules carried piggyback on Zenit-2M reconnaissance satellites between 1968 and 1979, cast off to run experiments before the host's retro-fire.
Kaptai Dam (কাপ্তাই বাঁধ)
Kaptai Dam (কাপ্তাই বাঁধ) is an earth-fill hydroelectric dam on the Karnaphuli River in Bangladesh, built between 1957 and 1962; it created Kaptai Lake, the country's largest man-made lake, and remains Bangladesh's only hydroelectric power station.
Kapton
Kapton is a polyimide film developed by DuPont in 1965, used for flexible circuits, wire insulation, and spacecraft thermal blankets across temperatures from −269 to 400 °C.
Kapuni Oil and Gas Field
Kapuni is an onshore natural gas-condensate field in South Taranaki, New Zealand, and the country's oldest producing gas field, surpassed in original size only by the offshore Maui field.
Kapustin Yar
Kapustin Yar (Капустин Яр) is a Russian military rocket test range in the Astrakhan region, near Volgograd, established in 1946 as the Soviet Union's first missile test range.
Kapustin Yar (Капустин Яр)
Kapustin Yar (Капустин Яр) is a Russian military rocket test range in Astrakhan Oblast, founded in 1946 as the Soviet Union's first missile test range and a spaceport from 1962.
Kara Hultgreen
Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994) was a United States Navy lieutenant and the first woman to carrier-qualify in the F-14 Tomcat, killed in a 1994 crash while landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Karabiner 98k
The Karabiner 98k, also known as the Mauser 98k or Kar98k, is a German bolt-action rifle adopted in 1935 as the standard Wehrmacht rifle of World War II.
Karachaganak Field
The Karachaganak field is a giant oil and gas condensate field in northwest Kazakhstan, discovered in 1979 and producing since 1984; it is one of the largest gas condensate fields in the world.
Karachaganak-Atyrau Oil Pipeline
The Karachaganak-Atyrau Oil Pipeline, also known as KATS, is a 635-km crude oil export pipeline in Kazakhstan, opened in 2003 to carry Karachaganak field oil to Atyrau on the Caspian Sea.
Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) is a nuclear power station at Paradise Point in Sindh, Pakistan, about 25 km west of Karachi, operated by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.
Karadeniz Holding
Karadeniz Holding is a Turkish family-owned energy conglomerate headquartered in Istanbul, best known for its Karpowership subsidiary, which operates the world's largest fleet of floating power plants.
Karaganda coal basin
The Karaganda coal basin (Қарағанды көмір бассейні) is a major hard-coal mining region around the city of Karaganda in central Kazakhstan, covering about 3,600 square kilometers and producing mainly coking coal for steelmaking.
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant
The Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, officially the Fljótsdalur Power Station, is a 690 MW hydroelectric plant in eastern Iceland commissioned in 2007, the largest in Iceland.