Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a mechanic who dreamed of building a vehicle that could " float on snow ".

While his building was still under construction late in 1854, Bunsen suggested certain design principles to the university's mechanic, Peter Desaga, and asked him to construct a prototype.

His mother, Nora ( née Sullivan ), was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic.

For a period of time in the early 1980s cast-member Chase Randolph was in the skit and played a mechanic often being flirted with by a gang of women.

Humphry Davy said of him that " Those who consider James Watt only as a great practical mechanic form a very erroneous idea of his character ; he was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and a chemist, and his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius, the union of them for practical application ".

Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948.

Although keen on becoming a pilot, there was already a surplus of trained aircrew and the Air Force instead put his mechanical skills to use as a flight mechanic, of which there was a wartime shortage.

By June of the same year, Broz left Omsk to find work and support his family, and was employed as a mechanic near Omsk for a year.

He sought to be a motorcycle mechanic, but instead he was assigned as a medic.

was a genius mechanic but afraid of flying.

In 1938, Kalashnikov was conscripted into the Red Army, and became a tank driver and mechanic, achieving the rank of senior sergeant tank commander serving on the T-34s of the 24th Tank Regiment, 12th Tank Division stationed in Stryi before the regiment retreated after the Battle of Brody in June 1941.

He joined Eurokart dealer Adolf Neubert in 1985 and by 1987 he was the German and European kart champion, then he quit school and began working as a mechanic.

Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain, the daughter of Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser and personal manager, and Eduardo Cruz, a retailer and auto mechanic.

At the time of the game's release, this was an unorthodox mechanic.

Roy Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas, the middle son of Orbie Lee Orbison, an oil well driller and car mechanic, and Nadine Shultz, a nurse.

A United Airlines mechanic was called by a flight attendant who stated the crew had been murdered and the plane hijacked.

The oldest known oxygen rebreather was patented on June 17, 1808 by Sieur Touboulic from Brest, mechanic in Napoleon's Imperial Navy, but there is no evidence of any prototype having been manufactured.

Hughes was stationed as a ground wireless mechanic in the RAF on an isolated three-man station in east Yorkshire, a time during which he had nothing to do but " read and reread Shakespeare and watch the grass grow ".

Street Fighter II was also responsible for popularizing the combo mechanic, which came about when skilled players learned that they could combine several attacks that left no time for the opponent to recover if they timed them correctly.

Burroughs was the son of a mechanic and worked with machines throughout his childhood.

His mechanic Mabelli said about this race: " Before the start, Nuvolari told me to go down on the floor of the car every time he shouts, which was a signal that he went to a curve too fast and that we need to decrease the car ´ s center of mass.

When Fangio was 13, he dropped out of school and worked as an assistant mechanic.

When he was 16, he started out riding as a mechanic for his employers customers.

An extremely skilled craftsman and mechanic, he is the one that often fixes the old Gummi technology and trap doors, as well as building traps around the Glen to deal with humans and ogres.

Velutha is an extremely gifted and accomplished carpenter and mechanic.

In the case of engine failure, which was extremely common at the time, the bomber could continue flying on two engines while the third was repaired by the in-flight mechanic.

The hero, Keith Stewart, is a " working class " mechanic, although an extremely talented one.

In " The Empty House ", Holmes states that Moriarty had commissioned a powerful air gun from a blind German mechanic ( one Mr. von Herder ), which was used by his employee Colonel Sebastian Moran.

A creature mechanic that allows you to " evolve " a creature into a more powerful creature.

* Lothar ( voiced by Buster Jones )— Mandrake's assistant and bodyguard, depicted as a powerful fighter, an able mechanic, and a master tactician.

* was a very powerful card that featured the Storm mechanic.

This mechanic provided a visual indicator of how powerful the player character was becoming.

These enhanced the power of cards with the " Affinity " mechanic by increasing the number of artifacts in play while still being considered lands.

*-Key beater of artifact heavy aggro decks, specifically those abusing the Affinity for artifacts mechanic.

** Affinity, which uses the affinity mechanic and large numbers of artifacts to quickly play spells such as and, while efficiently dealing damage using and.

* was often a finisher in combo decks based around the Storm mechanic.

Midrange decks in this definition are slower creature-based decks who trump the speed of fast aggro with better quality from their somewhat more expensive spells, an Example of which is the modern Jund deck that utilises the card advantage from creatures like and its Cascade mechanic.

His working life began as a mechanic but quickly he found interest in other things.

Hill joined Team Lotus as a mechanic soon after but quickly talked his way into the cockpit.

In jobs that require manual labor with the hands, such as an automobile mechanic or chef, finger cots may be used to protect an injured finger so that the individual can return to work more quickly following an injury.

By fighting his way through the sewers and escaping monsters, Flotsam's circus troops, and a huge robot named Halloween, Max quickly gathers together his mechanic partners and his mentor Cedric and boards a train out of Palm Brinks.

Other civilians who quickly get aboard the Solo Ship include Sheryl Formosa, a linguist studying the civilization on Solo, Sheryl's sister, Lin ; Banda Lotta ; three children: Piper Lou, Ashura Nobaku and Fard Maraka ; mechanic Joliver Ira, pilot Hatari Naburu and Moera Fatima.

Though upset, Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson ( David Ogden Stiers ), the town cafe's proprietor / head waitress ( Frances Sternhagen ), and Melvin ( Mel Winkler ), the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car.

Bewildered by the competition and handicapped by the lack of their best player, they quickly fall behind until the pub owner finally discloses the wager, and the mechanic shows up when he learns from his teammates that his wife is looking for him at the rink.

Fading quickly is the day of the ' backyard mechanic ', who needs little knowledge of today's computerized systems.