mechanician

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S. P. Dickson, whom a New York Times article referred to as a mechanician, died during the race after his car lost a wheel, causing both occupants to be thrown out.

From New York Times • May 16, 2016

“This is a neat paper,” says James Hanna, a mechanician at Virginia Tech, who has tackled similar problems in horizontal chains.

From Scientific American • Jan. 15, 2014

Chief Laboratory Assistant Frederick Ott is the sturdy mechanician who for 43 years has supervised experiments on Inventor Edison's ideas.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to another researcher, the cat "is no philosopher, no mechanician, no student of human affairs; merely . . . cherished for her air of aloofness and that aura of mystery which surrounds her."

From Time Magazine Archive

So he gave the captaincy to Penman, a tall, thoughtful fellow of a dusky skin, from the south, a good mechanician and a man dependable on all occasions.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)