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‘An engineer can be assistant.’

[⟨det engineer.n⟩ assistant.a]

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Macomb was born near Tallahassee, Florida, 27 February 1827, and entered the Navy as a third assistant engineer in 1849.
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Peter Lecount, an assistant engineer of the London Birmingham railway, produced a number of – possibly hyperbolic – comparisons in an effort to demonstrate that the London and Birmingham Railway was “the greatest public work ever executed either in ancient or modern times”.
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He was selected to be an assistant engineer, and attached to the Royal Engineers during the Siege of Sevastopol.
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He was appointed in 1816 by Governor Macquarie to be Acting Civil Architect and Assistant Engineer responsible to Captain J M Gill, Inspector of Public Works.
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He was Third Assistant Engineer on the frigate USS “Mississippi”, flagship of Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic expedition to Japan from 1852 to 1855, which opened up that nation to the world for the first time.
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Binnie was apprenticed to his father, who was then working as a waterworks engineer in Bradford, and also worked on the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway and as an assistant engineer on the Elan Valley Reservoirs.
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When Poire offered Bill the job as assistant chief engineer of the newly minted Rochester, MN cable system, Bill signed on.
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Michel Olson (of “The Village Blacksmith”): Hammer and anvil Wayne Belger: Two big – ass Australian didjeridus Thanks Barry Martin at LA Outback for the didj Dave Soyars: Fender Precision electric bass guitar Recorded by: Scott Fraser, assistant engineer Dave Pepin Mixed by: Scott Fraser, assistant engineer Barry Paul Recorded and Mixed at: Barry Paul Recording, North Hollywood, CA.
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He began his career in the mid – 1960s as an assistant engineer at the EMI Abbey Road Studios in London.
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Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode Assistant engineer on “Two Minute Warning”: Corinne Simcock
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In the Civil War, he served as assistant engineer in the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular campaign and in the northern Virginia campaign, and from July, 1864, to September, 1865, commanded as colonel, a regiment of veteran volunteer engineers.
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Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” and “Let It Be”, had recently engineered Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon”, and had produced several acts for EMI Records.
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WAPE featured Jim Shirah from 6 to 9 a.m., Dale Kirby (formerly an assistant engineer), from 9 to noon, Music Director Alan Sands (from WIRK) until 3 and Honest John Ferree (from Daytonas WMFJ) till 7:00 with Dan Brennans “Dan’s Dusty Discs” from 4 to 4:30.
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”) Also noteworthy is a credit to Robert Kinkel as Assistant Engineer, who went on to be the co – creator of the Trans – Siberian Orchestra.
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In 1857, now Second Assistant Engineer, he was ordered to the frigate USS “Susquehanna”, which was involved in the first, albeit unsuccessful, attempt to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Ireland.
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His first duty, which he assumed in June, 1862, was that of assistant engineer and chief of the construction corps of the Army of the Potomac.
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Assistant engineer: Richard Digby Smith.
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From 1831 to 1834, he served as senior assistant engineer for the proposed Allegheny Portage Railroad, and general manager from 1834 to 1835.
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In 1981, as the most junior member assistant engineer, he was conscripted to work on a Public Image Ltd recording session for a single, “Home is Where the Heart is”.
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Queried on 2013-05-26.