Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though Sir Bindon's new post is practically a sinecure, his early predecessors supervised the design, construction and inspection of national fortifications, were in charge of Royal Artillery and ammunition...
...production there have been only four models: the Silver Ghost (1906-25), the Phantom I (1925-29), the Phantom II (1929-35) and the Phantom III. Says the company in bringing out a 12-cylinder car for the first time: "Rolls-Royce have probably had more experience in the design and construction of 12-cylinder engines than any other firm in the world, for their first motor of this type was produced over 20 years...
...nonchalantly faces what in a newspicture would be the camera, the better to show his single eye. The flounced skirt which he wears was obsolete as ordinary apparel in Mesopotamia at the time of the carving (about 2,000 B.C.) and according to Dr. Frankfort the artist bungled its design...
...have been so long or so profitably interested in shaving as Colonel Jacob Schick. It was he who first applied the principle of the repeating rifle to the design of safety razors, inventing in 1921 the Schick magazine razor with a plunger for discarding and inserting blades. Eight years later he perfected the power-driven shave. The Schick Dry Shaver, an electric gadget selling for $15 which mows down whiskers without cream or lather, has found its way into 500,000 U. S. homes. Fortnight ago Colonel Schick came unbloodied through the first round of the year's biggest...
...mechanics in the scientific departments. Besides having to perform incredibly delicate and elaborate jobs the craftsmen must know enough engineering and science to be able to tell the researchers whether or not and in what way a projected machine will run. Professors and mechanics work together closely on the design and construction of aporata and the mechanics have a high degree of skill and esprit de corps...