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

Smith's mechanician drop a message to his family.

From Time Magazine Archive

Son Jay was the "mechanician" during races, stopped leaks at full speed, at race's end took the magnetos home and dried them in the oven.

From Time Magazine Archive

Caspar Kaltoff, mechanician to the Marquis, probably got the wheel up in a hurry so as to exhibit it on the occasion of the king's visit to the tower.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John