Engineers

Examples

• 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.
• Robert Stephenson was the engineer of this great structure, aided by the suggestions of Fairbairn and other eminent engineers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is being built by American engineers, and is to cost $3,000,000. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These problems have received the attention of the keenest inventors and electrical engineers and have been solved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Engineers who came from a distance to examine the railroad were amazed at the smoothness of travel over it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The problem of the incline is an important one to engineers who have under their direction the construction of our highways and the laying of our railroad tracks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Some engineers have been tempted to call him a lucky amateur, a talented artist who happened to become interested in new methods of navigation. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He was only doing in his own fashion what all engineers and manufacturers are trying to do in other ways all the year round. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I bought wholesale and at a low price, and permitted the wives of the engineers and trainmen to have the benefit of the discount. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then the telephone company gave me a dinner, and the engineers of France; and I attended the dinner celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of photography. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This was the first professional card, if it may be so described, ever issued in America by a firm of electrical engineers, and is here reproduced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• An immense bog, called Chat Moss, had to be crossed, and Stephenson was the only one of the engineers concerned who did not doubt whether such a crossing were really possible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Because of these facts, engineers spend great sums in grading down railroad beds, making them as nearly level as possible. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• We shall be making our own house for our own needs, cities to suit ourselves, and we shall believe ourselves capable of moving mountains, as engineers do, when mountains stand in their way. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• AN applicant for membership in the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia is required to give a brief statement of the professional work he has done. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They result by a criminal neglect of builders or engineers to provide themselves with such devices, or by a most ignorant or careless management and operation of simple actuating mechanisms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Holland, Germany, France, England and America have, through some of their ablest hydraulic engineers and inventors, produced most remarkable results in these various forms of pumps. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Henderson, one of his mechanical engineers, to see the road when it was in operation, and we went down one day--Edison, Henderson, and I--and went on the locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Expert engineers were introduced in every department. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Pope, the well-known Secretary of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, who had as a youth an active and intimate connection with that branch of electrical industry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In spite of this discouraging mishap the engineers and others present felt confidence in the aeroplane's power to fly. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One could count so-called electrical engineers on his fingers then, and have some fingers left over. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I handed him the pistol and he walked down to where the sergeant of engineers lay face down across the road. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Engineers are not sufficiently alive to the importance of improvements in this respect. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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