machinist
Noun
Meaning
A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
One skilled in the use of machine tools.
A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
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A few days later, the first cases of yellow fever were discovered in Norfolk, and a machinist died from the disease on July 8. By August several people were dying per day, and a third of the city population had fled in the hopes of escaping the epidemic.
Although drafting is sometimes accomplished by a project engineer, architect—or even by shop personnel such as a machinist —skilled drafters (and/or designers) usually accomplish the task and are always in demand to some level.
Among them was Neil Wight, a machinist from Buffalo, New York, who staked out a view of the launch pad from a park in Titusville.
Heinkel had recently purchased the Hirth engine company, and Ohain and his master machinist Max Hahn were set up there as a new division of the Hirth company.
By the time he met George Beauchamp and began manufacturing metal bodies for the "Nationals" being produced by the National String Instruments Corporation, Rickenbacker was a highly skilled production engineer and machinist.
In mid-1956, Graves secured Starkey a position as an apprentice machinist at a Liverpool equipment manufacturer.