Sitting in with Cream, Hendrix played through a new range of high-powered guitar amps being made by London drummer turned audio engineer Jim Marshall, and they proved perfect for his needs.

However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

* Eric Walker: Former aerospace engineer turned baseball writer, who played an important part in the early acceptance of sabermetrics within the Oakland Athletics organization.

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

The KKM 57 ( the Wankel rotary engine, Kreiskolbenmotor ) was constructed by NSU engineer Hanns Dieter Paschke in 1957 without the knowledge of Felix Wankel, who remarked " you have turned my race horse into a plow mare ".

Her parents are Sean O ' Connor, a structural engineer later turned barrister, and Marie O ' Connor.

Rillieux also turned his engineer skills to dealing with a Yellow Fever outbreak in New Orleans in the 1850s.

The products of high-temperature corrosion can potentially be turned to the advantage of the engineer.

The car was deemed to require almost complete re-engineering, which was turned over to engineer Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus.

* Jax-Ur-Jax-Ur is a rocket and missile engineer turned rogue criminal who unintentionally destroys one of Krypton's two moons, Wegthor, while testing a nuclear test missile as part of his plan to take over Krypton.

He then turned a summer job at DuPont into a full-time position as an engineer.

John Bindon was born in Fulham, London, and was the son of Dennis Bindon, a merchant seaman and engineer, turned cab driver.

She left the lights on all night and a building engineer turned them off each morning.

The immigrants brought technology, notably the famous high-pressure steam pumping engines designed by Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick, which turned many of the area's water-logged mines into huge silver producers.

Millard and his chief engineer Joe Killian turned to the microprocessor.

For the 7600, Cray once again turned to his refrigeration engineer, Dean Roush, formerly of the Amana company.

The new members who join the team in Markovia are the magician Faust, the warsuit-wearing engineer and industrialist Technocrat and Wylde ( Charlie Wylde ), a friend of Technocrat who has been turned into a mountain bear by Faust's uncontrollable magic.

Maynard Smith, a former engineer and highly competent mathematician, turned to game theory to answer the question.

Between 1941 and 1944, Renault was under the Technical Directorship of a francophile German installed former Daimler Benz engineer called Wilhelm von Urach who turned a blind eye to the small, economy car project suitable for the period of post war austerity.

Shortly after this setback Rowe, who had previously worked as an electrical engineer with the Fulmen business, but who also engaged in other trading activities, suddenly found himself financially ruined after he imported to France several hundred Romanian tractors that turned out to be defective.

Part of Smith's performance at what is considered the first outdoor jazz festival, the 1938 Carnival of Swing on Randall's Island, turned up unexpectedly on audio engineer William Savory ’ s discs, which were self-recorded off the radio at the time, then long-sequestered.

Once fully qualified in 1920, he turned professional, becoming Bill Struth's first signing as manager of Rangers, but only on the proviso that he could maintain his position as a mining engineer.

Although the Army focused primarily on infra-red detection systems ( a popular idea at the time ), in 1935 work turned to radar again when one of Blair's recent arrivals, Roger B. Colton, convinced him to send another engineer to investigate the US Navy's CXAM radar project.

Rehman had turned down a chance to move to Luton Town and team up with Mick Harford, who was previously the assistant manager at QPR, and said he was only prepared to drop down to League Two if he joined Bradford City, whose new ambassador Omar Khan helped to engineer the move.

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

A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics technology may be called an acoustical engineer.

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.

The rapid adoption of the compound crank can be traced in the works of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars, an unknown German engineer writing on the state of the military technology of his day: first, the connecting-rod, applied to cranks, reappeared, second, double compound cranks also began to be equipped with connecting-rods and third, the flywheel was employed for these cranks to get them over the ' dead-spot '.

The former works as a composer, and the latter as a recording engineer.

When considering a new application, the engineer can compare multiple learning algorithms and experimentally determine which one works best on the problem at hand ( see cross validation.

Despite saving the universe on multiple occasions, he seems unable to gain any respect from society, and works as a " sanitation engineer " ( in one form or another ) throughout the series.

The earliest description is found in the works of Syrian engineer Hassan al-Rammah in 1275.

The first works were carried out by the Spanish engineer Raymondo Lorenzo d ' Equevilley Montjustin ( submarine Narval ), who based the German Navy's first U-boat design, on the Russian export models bound for the Russo-Japanese War.

** Robert Moses, American civil engineer, public works director, and highway and bridge builder ( d. 1981 )

He also promoted groundbreaking science and technological innovations by supporting such works as the astronomical clock tower designed and built by the engineer Zhang Sixun.

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.

Additionally, key personnel for the new business were recruited from the employees of the Tramway Company, including George Challenger as chief engineer and works manager.

He works part-time as an engineer and a green politician.

" In July 2007, in a chat forum interview, Pod < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s engineer Steve Albini revealed that he considered the album to be amongst his best works.

The initial plans and surveys for this ambitious undertaking were made by John Rennie Senior, the celebrated engineer whose works included Waterloo, Southwark and London Bridges over the Thames.

Robert Stevenson, surveyor to the Commissioners of Northern Lights, drew the original plans and, at his suggestion, the commissioners called Rennie into counsel when the works were begun, bestowing on him the honorary title of chief engineer.

Following his work on the Philadelphia water works project, Latrobe worked as an engineer of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Major works were completed at the end of the 17th century by the French military engineer Sebastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban.

Searching for a way to reestablish himself, Saccard is struck by plans developed by his upstairs neighbor, the engineer Georges Hamelin, who dreams of restoring Christianity to the Middle East through great public works: rail lines linking important cities, improved roads and transportation, renovated eastern Mediterranean ports, and fleets of modern ships to move goods around the world.

In 1906 Rolls and Royce formalised their partnership by creating Rolls-Royce Limited, with Royce appointed chief engineer and works director on a salary of £ 1, 250 per annum plus 4 % of the profits in excess of £ 10, 000.

His father Émile works for Renault as testing engineer thus Rédélé is raised within an environment which fascinates him from the beginning of his life.

His father was a retired major-general of the Marine Artillery, who was actively engaged in the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55 and after his retirement worked as an engineer in ordnance works near St. Petersburg.