Hydraulic engineer Pieter Caland was commissioned to design a canal cutting through the " Hook of Holland ” and to extend the Mouth of Rhine to the sea.

It may be of relevance that in 1985 the Smithsonian Institution commissioned aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready to build a half-scale working model of Quetzalcoatlus northropi.

The base was greatly enlarged by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of Louis XIV, who also commissioned his chief military engineer Vauban to strengthen the fortifications around the city.

In 1905 Oskar von Miller ( 1855 – 1934 ) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich commissioned updated versions of a geared orrery and planetarium from M Sendtner, and later worked with Franz Meyer, chief engineer at the Carl Zeiss optical works in Jena, on the largest mechanical planetarium ever constructed, capable of displaying both heliocentric and geocentric motion.

John Philip Holland () ( 29 February 184012 August 1914 ) was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U. S. Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, the Holland 1.

In an attempt to increase production through the use of water power, Thomas Cotchett commissioned engineer George Sorocold to build a mill near the centre of Derby on an island in the River Derwent.

In 1849, civil engineer James Fry, was commissioned to lay out the original town of Catlettsburg ( the area from 24th to 26th streets, and from the former Front to present-day Walnut Streets ).

This was a physically demanding and slow process and created major delays, so leading civil engineer Thomas Telford was commissioned to provide a second, wider, parallel tunnel with a towpath.

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.

Heidelberg Castle and the Hortus Palatinus commissioned by Frederick, and designed by English gardener Inigo Jones ( 1573 – 1652 ) and French engineer Salomon de Caus ( 1576 – 1626 ).

In addition to the renovations to Heidelberg Castle mentioned above, Frederick commissioned a new courtyard garden, the Hortus Palatinus, designed by English gardener Inigo Jones and French engineer Salomon de Caus.

He attached it to imported motorcycles, commissioned to Italian ex-pilot and engineer Leopoldo Tartarini, owner of Italjet Moto, to manufacture Minarelli-engined 50 cc minibikes under the Indian Papoose name.

On June 24, 1833, the staff and dignitaries including Vice President Martin Van Buren, Secretary of War Lewis Cass, Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury, and many Massachusetts officials, witnessed " one of the great events of American naval history ": the United States frigate Constitution was inaugurating the first naval drydock in New England designed by prominent civil engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr .. On March 14, 1975, the historic ship floated out of the dock — the last commissioned vessel to use the facility.

In 1851 the Montreal and Kingston Railway Committee commissioned another well-known Canadian engineer and future associate of Gzowski, Walter Shanly, to make another survey of the Montreal-Kingston route.

One of her earliest works was North Star House in Grass Valley, California, commissioned in 1906 by mining engineer Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, the author and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote.

In 1924-25 the new Irish Free State's Minister for Industry and Commerce Patrick McGilligan commissioned the engineer Dr. Thomas McLoughlin to submit proposals.

Hamilton commissioned civil engineer Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, responsible for the layout of the new capital at Washington, D. C. to design the system of canals known as raceways supplying the power for the watermills in the new town.

Hamilton commissioned civil engineer Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, responsible for the layout of the new capital at Washington, D. C. to design the system of canals known as raceways suppylings the power for the watermills in the new town.

Campus & Stadium Ireland Development, the State company which owns the centre, commissioned an engineer to assess the roof damage and they concluded that the roof was not designed and constructed in accordance with the building regulations.

This work was commissioned to naval engineer Emilio de Vitds.

To celebrate the 125th Anniversary, the board commissioned Adelaide historian Alison Painter, ( wife of John Painter, an engineer employed by Coopers in 1968 to oversee the upgrading of the brewery plant and the reduction in plant maintenance costs ), to write " Jolly Good Ale and Old: The history of the Coopers Brewery 1862 – 1987 ".

He was later a bombardier at Gibraltar, and was there commissioned an engineer in 1731.

In 1830 Maurice FitzGerald, the 18th Knight of Kerry, commissioned Scottish engineer Alexander Nimmo to draw up plans for a new village.

The Tenth Street Studio Building was situated at 51 West 10th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, the building was commissioned by James Boorman Johnston and designed by Richard Morris Hunt.

In 1856, under the direction of Postmaster General James Campbell, Toppan and Carpenter, ( commissioned by the U. S. government to print U. S. postage stamps through the 1850s ) purchased a rotary machine designed to separate stamps, patented in England in 1854 by William and Henry Bemrose, who were printers in Derby, England.

Morse was commissioned to paint President James Monroe in 1820.

* The fourth, was a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, commissioned in 1964 and struck in 1993.

** James Bond novels, the original literary works by Fleming, plus works by other authors after Fleming's death ( usually commissioned by the owner of the Fleming copyrights, a company now known as Ian Fleming Publications )

Later, in 1879, the New York state legislature commissioned Olmsted and James T. Gardner to survey the falls and to create the single most important document in the Niagara preservation movement, a Special Report on the preservation of Niagara Falls.

Other artists commissioned to decorate the rooms included Grinling Gibbons, Sir James Thornhill and Jacques Rousseau ; furnishings were designed by Daniel Marot.

** Cretin Hall, Loras Hall, the Service Center, a classroom building, the refectory building, the administration building in 1894, and Grace Hall in 1913 were commissioned by James J. Hill.

After America entered World War II in December 1941, Johnson, still in Congress, became a commissioned officer in the Naval Reserve, then asked Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal for a combat assignment.

James was a critic of the Dowd Report, which was an investigation ( commissioned by baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti ) on the gambling activities of Pete Rose.

It is a taboo to disfigure a depiction of a dragon ; for example, an advertisement campaign commissioned by Nike, which featured the American basketball player LeBron James slaying a dragon ( as well as beating up an old Kung Fu master ), was immediately banned by the Chinese government after public outcry over " disrespect ".

Mitchell was commissioned an ensign in the 18th Regiment of Militia and on January 4, 1801, Governor James Garrard became a captain in the 18th Regiment.

The palace is a neoclassical building by architect Ventura Rodriguez, it was commissioned by the I Duke of Berwick and Liria James Fitz-James at the service of King Philip V of Spain.

From wetlands in what would become southern Monroe County, approximately of land would be explored after President James Madison commissioned a survey of the purchase area.

British General James Oglethorpe was commissioned to harass the Spanish settlements south of the colony of Georgia so the Spanish governor fortified the Diego farmhouse which was already being called Fort San Diego.

Following the completion of Mentmore, Baron James de Rothschild, one of Baron de Rothschild's French cousins, commissioned Château de Ferrières at Ferrières-en-Brie near Paris to be " Another Mentmore, but twice the size ".

In fact, the artistic legacy of his reign is slight, especially when compared to that of his successors, James IV and James V. Such evidence as there is consists of portrait coins produced during his reign that display the king in three-quarter profile wearing an imperial crown, the Trinity Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, which was probably not commissioned by the king, and an unusual hexagonal chapel at Restalrig near Edinburgh, perhaps inspired by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

* Symphony No. 5 ( Concerto for Orchestra ) ( commissioned by The Juilliard School ( Premiere October 27, 2008, Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard Orchestra, James Conlon, conductor )

The 12th-century Historia Compostellana commissioned by bishop Diego Gelmírez provides a summary of the legend of St James as it was believed at Compostela.

* HMS St. James ( D65 ), a Battle-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, commissioned in 1946 and broken up in 1961

The annotations which are an important part of the Geneva Bible were Calvinist and Puritan in character, and as such they were disliked by the ruling pro-government Anglicans of the Church of England, as well as King James I, who commissioned the " Authorized Version ", or King James Bible, in order to replace it.

The architect James Gamble Rogers was commissioned to create a master plan for the principal buildings on the new campus which he designed in collegiate gothic style.