Brindley was commissioned as the consulting engineer and, although he has often been credited as the genius behind the construction of the canal, it is now thought that the main designers were Sir Thomas Egerton himself, who had some engineering training, and the resident engineer John Gilbert.

It can even border on genius, like the Nazi spy Pruneface, a machine design engineer who dabbles with a chemical nerve gas.

In the evenings, the Citadelle is illuminated and stands above the city as a landmark and a testament to Vauban's genius as a military engineer.

* Roy F. Brissenden, World War II pilot, physicist, aeronautical engineer, mechanical engineer, teacher, inventor, project leader at Hampton, Langley Research Center NACA / NASA ; great genius of the Apollo Program

Porco is initially skeptical of Fio's abilities as a mechanic, but after seeing her dedication in the project to repair his plane he accepts her as a competent engineer, and begins to recognize her as a genius.

Kang has no superhuman abilities, but is an extraordinary genius, an expert historical scholar, a master physicist ( specializing in time-travel ), engineer, and technician.

Fender owed its early success not only to its founder and talented associates such as musician / product engineer Freddie Tavares but also to the efforts of sales chief, senior partner and marketing genius Don Randall.

However, Yi Xing's mechanical genius and achievements were built upon the knowledge and efforts of previous Chinese mechanical engineers, such as the statesman and master of gear systems Zhang Heng ( 78 – 139 ) of the Han Dynasty, the equally brilliant engineer Ma Jun ( 200 – 265 ) of the Three Kingdoms, and the Daoist Li Lan ( c. 450 ) of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period.

Malakai Makaisson is a dwarf Slayer and mad genius engineer.

After the War, Wilson had a considerable reputation as an engineer of genius, particularly for gearbox design.

Day is a competent, although perhaps not genius, engineer and inventor, with degrees in physics and mechanical engineering.

Besides being a brilliant inventor and engineer, Erik is also a musical genius, and he is frequently involved in the affairs the opera house in order to listen to operas and interfere with the manager's bad taste.

; Génies ( génie has many French definitions -- Genie, wizard, genius, engineer ): Military engineers

He proved to be an organizer of genius, choreographing Hitler ’ s dramatic airplane tours of Germany and pioneering the use of radio and cinema for electoral campaigning.

However, he proved his military genius in the Corsican expedition, and also conducted a thorough study of the island during his stay.

Although he initially believed that mastering the larger forms was the hallmark of a great composer ( a belief his early mentors reinforced ), the smaller scale of the art song proved to provide an ideal creative outlet for his musical expression and came to be regarded as the genre best suited to his peculiar genius.

After a while, Bortniansky's genius proved too great to ignore, and in 1796 he was appointed Director of the Imperial Chapel Choir, the first director not to have been imported from outside of the Russian Empire.

In art, Blakelock was a genius, yet, in business dealings and in monetary transactions he proved a failure.

This battle served two main purposes: it proved Montrose's strategic genius, at the same time as it revived the Royalist cause in Scotland.

Kemble stated Grimaldi had " proved himself the great master of his art ", while the actress Mrs. Jordan called him " a genius ... yet unapproached ".

But, notwithstanding the attempt to introduce an alien element into the Roman language, which proved incompatible with its natural genius, and his own failure to attain the idiomatic purity of Naevius, Plautus, or Terence, the fragments of his dramas are sufficient to prove the service which he rendered to the formation of the literary language of Rome as well as to the culture and character of his contemporaries.

Wheeler proved to be a creative genius when it came to designing quality sets at reasonable costs and was very much in demand in the industry.

Obsidian proved himself to be a tactical genius on the battlefield, given his history as a supreme general.

Sent to live with a family on Earth, Rond proved to be a genius at temporal theory, and won a prize at an early age for his invention of the Time Cube, a device which can transport its contents in time.

when a woman, because of her sex, our customs and prejudices, encounters infinitely more obstacles than men in familiarising herself with theory's knotty problems, yet overcomes these fetters and penetrates that which is most hidden, she doubtless has the most noble courage, extraordinary talent, and superior genius.

In talent he is perhaps superior to all the members of The Five, but his nature is narrow-minded, devoid of any urge towards self-perfection, blindly believing in the ridiculous theories of his circle and in his own genius.

Epaminondas, an intuitive and genius general, used at Leuctra for the first time the oblique order in which a local superiority of numbers can be used to defeat a superior force.

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In 1911, the compilers of Encyclopaedia Britannica remarked, " Various estimates have been formed of the genius of Flaccus, and some critics have ranked him above his original, to whom he certainly is superior in liveliness of description and delineation of character.

In none of these wars did he show superior genius, but he acted throughout with great prudence and extraordinary tenacity ; he was " le héros de la mauvaise fortune " (" hero of misfortune ")

MacDonald had none of that military genius that distinguished Davout, Masséna and Lannes, nor of that military science conspicuous in Marmont and St Cyr, but nevertheless his campaign in Switzerland gives him a rank far superior to such mere generals of division as Oudinot and DuPont.

The white race, with oval face, straight hair and nose, to which the civilised people of Europe belong and which appear to us the most beautiful of all, is also superior to others by its genius, courage and activity.

George Vertue was one of the work's many admirers ; it showed, he thought, " the greatness of his genius in his invention, design and execution, in every part equal, if not superior, to any others " outshining " for nobleness and skill all those before done by the best sculptors this fifty years past " The mourning figure of Eloquence, the notably unkind John Thomas Smith found to be " such a memorial of his powers, that even his friend Pope could not have equalled it by an epitaph ".

" Set in late 20th century Montreal, it features an " electrical genius ": a " learned Chinaman " who woos and wins a Canadian wife through his superior scientific knowledge as embodied in " the Electrical Kiss ".

Satrústegui considers himself a genius, superior over all those he comes across.

: Endowed with superior genius and accomplishments,

And a good many ladies are to be placed near these poets, such as Vittoria Colonna ( loved by Michelangelo ), Veronica Gambara, Tullia d ' Aragona, and Giulia Gonzaga, poets of great delicacy, and superior in genius to many literary men of their time.

After all, the humans are becoming more sophisticated daily, and a genius such as myself will be needed to ensure that fairy technology remains superior to human technology.

The white race, with oval face, straight hair and nose, to which the civilised people of Europe belong and which appear to us the most beautiful of all, is also superior to others by its genius, courage and activity .</ blockquote />

As for short story writers, I have the greatest affection for Poe's genius and the superior, concise precision of Merimée and the natural feel of Maupassant's satire, he told his friend Milan Ogrizović in a letter.

" The book is set in late 20th century Montreal and features an " electrical genius ": a " learned Chinaman " who woos and wins a Canadian wife through his superior scientific knowledge as embodied in " the Electrical Kiss ".