An engineer had been made the works manager of a firm, supplanting a retired employee who had been considered outstandingly successful.

The engineer turned works manager had a particular view of life -- and refused to change it.

Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.

Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles ' Abbey Road and Let It Be, had recently engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, and had produced several acts for EMI Records.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

Notably, the design team was led by Dirk Meyer, who had worked as a lead engineer on multiple Alpha microprocessors during his employment at DEC. Jerry Sanders had approached many of the engineering staff to work for AMD as DEC wound down their semiconductor business, and brought in a near-complete team of engineering experts.

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

( Similar principles had been used in an earlier burner design by Michael Faraday as well as in a device patented in 1856 by the gas engineer R W Elsner.

The army had three infantry battalions and an engineer battalion in 1979, as well as a light tank squadron, a reconnaissance company, and an artillery battery.

Outside Europe, the escapement mechanism had been known and used in medieval China, as the Song Dynasty horologist and engineer Su Song ( 1020 – 1101 ) incorporated it into his astronomical clock-tower of Kaifeng in 1088.

Bertrain H. Wait, an engineer whose company had worked on the construction of the New York Cities Catskill Aqueduct, was impressed with the durability of Rosendale cement, and came up with a blend of both Rosendale and synthetic cements which had the good attributes of both: it was highly durable and had a much faster setting time.

Engelbart applied for a patent in 1967 and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels ( computer mouse-), which he had developed with Bill English, his lead engineer, a few years earlier.

Franz Schneider, a Swiss engineer, had patented such a device in Germany in 1913, but his original work was not followed up.

Ford Motor Co. engineer Roy Lunn was sent to England ; he had designed the mid-engined Mustang I concept car powered by a 1. 7 litre V4.

The engineer battalion had companies in Conakry, Kankan, and Boké, and was engaged in constructing and repairing buildings and roads.

Also the country had just three lawyers with not a single Libyan physician, engineer, surveyor or pharmacist in the kingdom.

His father, Arthur Simon ( 1881 – 1948 ), was an electrical engineer who had come to the United States from Germany in 1903 after earning his engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt.

The sons of Montgolfier obtained an English patent for an improved version in 1816, and this was acquired, together with Whitehurst's design, in 1820 by Josiah Easton, a Somerset-born engineer who had just moved to London.

and much more commonly in recent years, the engineer who found that other duties interfered with -- or eliminated -- his engineering contributions.

As an architect or engineer becomes more concerned with the disadvantages of transportation networks, and dependence on distant resources, their designs tend to include more autonomous elements.

* Leslie Geddes ( deceased )- Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a National Medal of Technology in 2006 from President George Bush for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ).

It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.

1st c. AD ), who referred to the now lost works of the 3rd century BC engineer Ctesibius, this weapon was inspired by an earlier hand crossbow, called the gastraphetes ( belly shooter ), which could store more energy than the Greek bows.

1st c. AD ), who referred to the now lost works of the 3rd century BC engineer Ctesibius, this weapon was inspired by an earlier foot-held crossbow, called the gastraphetes, which could store more energy than the Greek bows.

Ion implantation is used in such cases to engineer the surfaces of such devices for more reliable performance.

Finally they prospected the Tarua River south past the tributary which flows to Waipai, once more without success and on the advice of mining engineer Seale, it was decided there was nothing to justify further exploration.

The treatment of these themes include the romantic relationship and eventual marriage ( once the girl becomes an adult via time-travel ) of a 30-year-old engineer and an 11-year-old girl in The Door into Summer or the more overt inter-familial incest in To Sail Beyond the Sunset and Farnham's Freehold.

A nuclear engineer turned Islamic-scholar, Mahmood authored more than 15 books, all in English, on the relationship between Islam and science.

Bangladeshi-American structural engineer Fazlur Khan, more than any others, ushered in a renaissance in skyscrapers construction from 1960s with structural innovations that transformed the industry.

The canal's engineer, G. R. Webb, produced a report on the expected costs of laying rails along the towpaths, but nothing more was heard of the project, and the advent of steam and diesel powered boats offered a much simpler solution.

A gifted scientist, architect and engineer, Rudbeck was the dominant personality of the university in the late 17th century who laid some of the groundwork for Linnaeus and others, but he is perhaps more known today for the pseudohistorical speculations of his Atlantica, which consumed much of his later life.

Deutsch was a " theoretical engineer who had a natural instinct for aerodynamics ," while Bonnet was a more " pragmatic mechanical engineer ".

A more engineer friendly rule of thumb is that the approximate requirement for spacing loading coils is ten coils per wavelength of the maximum frequency being transmitted.

The average salary for a civil engineer in the UK depends on the sector, and more specifically the level of experience of the individual.

The engineer would be more the cameraman of the movie.

The concept of the Chamberlin was itself modeled after the Laff Box invented by engineer Charlie Douglass in order to insert prerecorded laughs into TV and radio programs more easily in the then-developing field of post-production.

This device was much more sensitive than both the capillary electrometer Waller used and the string galvanometer that had been invented separately in 1897 by the French engineer Clément Ader.

In this capacity, Scott proved to be as much of a tinkerer, or improvisational engineer, as a high-tech specialist, often apparently holding the Enterprise together with little more than baling wire and his own spittle.

Shute identified how engineering, science and design could improve human life and more than once used the apparently anonymous epigram, " It has been said an engineer is a man who can do for five shillings what any fool can do for a pound ...." It is said that Shute was a cousin of the red haired Irish-American actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.

While he was initially closely involved in the home-based recordings with co-producer David Sandler and engineer Stephen Desper and " did significant work on more than half of the tracks ", his involvement, as with much of his work in the era, " ebbed and flowed ".

I am sure that the engineer who enters management is nearly always opening the door to greater possibilities than he would have as a technical specialist -- because of his wider accountability ''.

Ginny acted as the first reader of his manuscripts, and she was reputed to be a better engineer than Heinlein himself.

Romans preferred to engineer solutions to obstacles rather than circumvent them.

degree in Mathematics from Stanford University was at IBM, where he worked for less than two years as a systems engineer supporting QUIKTRAN.

Shortages, including material and labor, forced alterations to the earlier plan developed by French engineer Pierre Charles L ' Enfant for a " palace " that was five times larger than the house that was eventually built.

On the other hand, Thomas Hancock ( 1786 – 1865 ), a scientist and engineer, was the first to patent vulcanization of rubber and indeed, he understood vulcanization better than Goodyear.

The pass had been discovered by John Frank Stevens, principal engineer of the Great Northern Railway, in December 1889, and offered an easier route across the Rockies than that taken by the Northern Pacific.

Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen ( 1929 – 1987 ) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel designed the winning entry to be a 20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than military victories.

The aircraft engineer Juan de la Cierva worked on his " Autogiro " project to develop a rotary wing aircraft which, he hoped, would be unable to stall and which therefore would be safer than aeroplanes.

To overcome this obstacle, the Confederate Congress passed legislation that gave a company of engineers to every division in the field ; and by 1865, they actually had more engineer officers serving in the field of action than the Union Army.

In 1972 a team at Diablo Systems led by engineer David S. Lee developed the first commercially successful daisy wheel printer, a device that was faster and more flexible than IBM's golf-ball devices, being capable of 30 cps ( characters per second ), whereas IBM's Selectric operated at 13. 4 cps.

Beauregard considered his contributions in dangerous reconnaissance missions and devising strategy for his superiors to be more significant than those of his engineer colleague, Captain Robert E. Lee, so he was disappointed when Lee and other officers received more brevets than he did.

In 1956 Holly's band ( then known informally as Buddy and the Two Tones ( meaning Buddy Holly with Sonny Curtis and Don Guess ), posthumous releases refer to The Three Tunes ) recorded an album's worth of rockabilly numbers in Nashville, Tennessee for Decca ; the records were no more than mildly successful, and the band didn't hit pay dirt until 1957, when producer and recording engineer Norman Petty hosted Holly's sessions in Clovis, New Mexico.

The king's engineer, Alnoth, destroyed the fortifications and filled in the moat at Framlingham between 1174-6 at a total cost of £ 16 11s 12d, although he probably shored up, rather than destroyed, the internal stone buildings.