And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

That, he added, was when he was `` a very young man, a machinist and toolmaker by trade.

While his design was sound and the plans were probably correct, or at least debuggable, the project was slowed by various problems including disputes with the chief machinist building parts for it.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

By the time he met George Beauchamp and began manufacturing metal bodies for the " Nationals " being produced by the National String Instruments Corporation, Rickenbacker was a highly-skilled production engineer and machinist.

Nash alleged Dillinger was living and working in California as a machinist, under what would have been an early form of the witness protection program.

Her father was a unionized machinist and her mother worked as a secretary.

At 16, Maurice dropped out of school and worked with his father as a machinist and that was his only income other than some income in the winter with the senior Canadiens.

Richard was turned down a total of three times by the military, twice for combat and once as a machinist.

Richard had applied to be a machinist in the military, but was again refused due to his lack of a high school diploma or technical trade certificate.

Richard tried to explain that he had dropped out of school to help his family and had been working as a machinist at a local factory since he was 16.

They still refused, and he was told he needed a machinist certificate.

Appointed machinist on May 13, 1942, David was assigned to the Submarine Repair Unit, San Diego on May 28, and served in that unit for five months.

He was also a competent blacksmith, an expert machinist and fluent in French.

David Bailey was born in Leytonstone, London, to father Herbert, a tailor's cutter, and mother Gladys, later a machinist.

The first patent for a compact epicyclic hub gear was granted in 1895 to the American machinist Seward Thomas Johnson of Noblesville, Indiana, U. S. A.

At Midvale, Taylor was quickly promoted to time clerk, journeyman machinist, gang-boss over the lathe hands, machine shop foreman, and then research director and finally chief engineer of the works ( while maintaining his position as machine shop foreman ).

Early on at Midvale, working as a laborer and machinist, Taylor recognized that workmen were not working their machines, or themselves, nearly as hard as they could ( which at the time was called " soldiering ") and that this resulted in high labor costs for the company.

He was born in Grunbach and as a young man became an apprentice machinist at a foundry.

His father was employed by Canadian National for over forty years, at first as a machinist and later in management.

Her mother was a manicurist and her father was a machinist.

Wesker was born in Stepney, London, the son of Leah ( née Perlmutter ), a cook, and Joseph Wesker, a tailor's machinist.

Bryce, born in Lanark, Scotland, was educated at Glasgow and apprenticed as a machinist.

Allen William Galitzen: born in California, U. S. A. ( 1918 – 1996 ): United States Navy machinist and US Army transportation corp during World War II.

Arthur Reimer was born January 15, 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a machinist.

Carrie Katherine Richards was born March 26, 1876 in Ottawa County, Kansas, O ' Hare briefly worked as a teacher in Nebraska before becoming an apprentice machinist in her native Kansas.

Lowell hired the gifted machinist Paul Moody to assist him in designing efficient cotton spinning and weaving machines, based on the British models, but with many technological improvements suited to the conditions of New England.

He emigrated to Canada in the 1950s and worked as a machinist in the electrical industry.

By 1910 he had returned to Melbourne and worked as a boot machinist.

Later, Willie tells Leo not to worry about it, because Frank tried to get him to enroll in a machinist program as well.

None of these were numerically programmable, however, and required a master machinist at some point in the process, because the " programming " was physical rather than numerical.

As a young man he worked as a machinist, and also as a police officer and fireman, and was encouraged toward work as an umpire because his thick build served well in quelling disputes on the field between the ironworkers who formed local teams.

Refused military service because of permanent neck injuries sustained in a car-racing accident, LeTourneau worked during World War I as a maintenance assistant at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in Vallejo, California, where he was trained as an electrical machinist and improved his welding skills.

He was a passenger in a two-seater Travelaire biplane flown by Navy machinist mate second class Albert Burghardt, who was at the controls because Banning had been refused use of the airplane by an instructor at the Airtech Flying School.

A widely used training text, in two volumes, for machinist apprentices and other trainees, as well as a reference book for the shelf of the journeyman-level machinist.

Machinery's Handbook for machine shop and drafting-room ; a reference book on machine design and shop practice for the mechanical engineer, draftsman, toolmaker, and machinist ( the full title of the 1st edition ) is a classic reference work in mechanical engineering and practical workshop mechanics in one volume published by Industrial Press, New York, since 1914.

As CAM software and machines become more complicated, the skills required of a machinist or machine operator advance to approach that of a computer programmer and engineer rather than eliminating the CNC machinist from the workforce.

While the foregoing were primarily the materials that a machinist would be cutting, the cutters that the machinist uses must be harder and tougher than the materials to be cut.

This interesting Cooke / Ritchie manuscript journal ' link ' shows very easily how Cooke, more so than not, became acquainted with Frederick Kerby ; and how this would have quickly led to Kerby becoming Cooke's machinist, and the key one of the two Cooke used, that Cooke would rely on most.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

`` People automatically assume that I'm in college '', a nineteen-year-old machinist observed irritably.

Mrs. Oliver is mother of five children and wife of a machinist.

In 1968 Bruno Dressler asked Fernand Petzl, who worked as a metals machinist, to build a rope-ascending tool, today known as the Petzl Croll, that he had developed by adapting the Jumar to pit caving.

In 1983, Shirley Armitage became the first major black character in her role as machinist at Baldwin's Casuals.

Interrupted by the chief machinist requesting he celebrate the launch of 8½, Fellini put aside the letter and went on the set.

In 1879, he left home to work as an apprentice machinist in the city of Detroit, first with James F. Flower & Bros., and later with the Detroit Dry Dock Co.

The museum used computer-controlled machine tools to construct the necessary parts, using tolerances a good machinist of the period would have been able to achieve.

As 1921 began he moved to Veliko Trojstvo near Bjelovar and found work as a machinist.

A standard ordinary one-inch micrometer has readout divisions of. 001 inch and a rated accuracy of +/-. 0001 inch (" one tenth ", in machinist parlance ).

But everyone, whether student or machinist, should understand the compensation concept, even if they avoid using it.

Although drafting is sometimes accomplished by a project engineer, architect — or even by shop personnel such as a machinist — skilled drafters ( and / or designers ) usually accomplish the task and are always in demand to some level.

Hall volunteered for the U. S. Navy when World War II broke out, serving as a machinist in Guam.

* Heinlein revealed in the liner notes to the Leonard Nimoy – read album The Green Hills of Earth that he partially based Rhysling's unique abilities on a blind machinist he worked with at the Philadelphia Naval Yards during World War II.