Engineer

Examples

• The first known application of the kind was made by Mr. Murdoch, an engineer in the employment of Messrs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Baldwin, a construction engineer, living in the United States, began to work on calculating machines in 1870. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The feverish young inn-keeper and ex-engineer started like Satan at the touch of Ithuriel's spear. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Ferris, an able engineer, now dead. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• His health soon gave out, when he was succeeded by Captain Comstock, also of the Engineer Corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The engineer in telephony cannot increase his motive power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That Department, through Sir William Henry Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of Telegraphs, took up the subject, and reported very favorably on the Marconi System. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• That was long before invention became a research department full of engineers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The thought, taken up by electrical engineers, brought out an electric toaster, rectangular in shape, with handsome frame, nickel supports and wire heating element. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is as an inventor that he sets himself down in the membership list of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Casey, of the United States Corps of Engineers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Among the most successful of those engineers, who constructed steam carriages to run on roads, were Mr. Gurney, Mr. Birstall, Mr. Trevethick, Mr. Handcock, and Colonel Maceroni. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He sent a model of this to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers at Birmingham, of which he was president, together with a report describing it in full. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For this reason engineers, wherever possible, level down the steep places, and reduce the strain as far as possible. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It may be stated as broadly true that Edison engineered to handle immense masses of stuff automatically, while his predecessors aimed chiefly at close separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There have been about 1,000 patents granted for bridges, about 2,500 for excavating apparatus, and about 1,500 for hydraulic engineering. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It was a remarkable engineering feature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The engineering establishment of Mr. Hall, at Dartford, in Kent, was selected as best adapted for the purpose of making the machinery and for carrying the plans into operation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The organization was crude, the steam-engineering talent poor, and owing to the impossibility of getting any considerable capital subscribed, the plants were put in as cheaply as possible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And Alfred must go off to the engineering--I've made up my mind to that. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Edison devoted a great deal of his time to the engineering work in connection with the laying out of the first incandescent electric-lighting system in New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Edison is preeminent in the realm of engineering. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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