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6 unusual facts about Machinist


Charlie Reilley

After his baseball career, one of his known occupations was a steam fitter.

Huang Zhizhong

After he retired from basketball team, he worked in Tientsin Textile manufacturing factory as a Machinist fitter.

Machinist's handbook

Today, the phrases "machinist's handbook" or "machinists' handbook" are almost always imprecise references to Machinery's Handbook.

During the decades from World War I through World War II, these phrases could refer to either of two competing reference books: McGraw-Hill's American Machinists' Handbook or Industrial Press's Machinery's Handbook.

The latter book, Machinery's Handbook, is still regularly revised and updated, and it continues to be a "bible of the metalworking industries" today.

Vic Renalson

He was working as a fitter and Turner and was driving to North Queensland to work on a sugarcane plantation when the steering on his car failed near Sarina.


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Albert Woller

Albert F. Woller (1886–?), machinist, auto mechanic and Socialist politician from Milwaukee

Archie McLeod

An injury ended his career and he returned home to Glasgow where he worked as a machinist with John Brown & Company.

Atomic Ed and the Black Hole

Ed Grothus (“Atomic Ed”) is a machinist-turned-atomic junk collector who more than 30 years ago quit his job of making atomic bombs and began collecting non-radioactive high-tech nuclear waste discarded from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Berton Braley

He was a prolific writer, with verses in many magazines, including Coal Age, American Machinist, Nation's Business, Forbes Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and the Saturday Evening Post.

Bill Lovelee

He worked for the British Merchant Navy at Glebe Island as a fitter and machinist, and was active in youth affairs as the founder of the Bankstown blue light disco and a director of the DC24 drug centre.

Burn Rate

Wolff recounts a growing animosity with his financial backers: Robert Machinist, Alan Patricof and Jon Rubin.

Daniel Griffin

Daniel T. Griffin (1911–1941), Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class in U.S. Navy

David Rigsbee

After WWII, he worked as a machinist for Liggett & Myers Tobacco (Liggett Group) Company of Durham, NC.

E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency

Local cyclist, John Wilkinson's first job was as machinist for E. C. Stearns & Company where he stayed a short three months before moving on to Stearns competitor, Syracuse Bicycle Company where he was employed for four years.

Friedrich Gottlob Keller

Friedrich Gottlob Keller (born June 27, 1816 in Hainichen, Saxony – died September 8, 1895 in Krippen, Saxony) was a German machinist and inventor, who (at the same time as Charles Fenerty) invented the wood pulp process for the use in papermaking.

George P. McLain

Upon arrival in Los Angeles, McLain was a machinist with Perry and Woodward Company for three years and then joined the Griffith and Lynch Lumber Company, but he was best known for his ownership of an advertising, or bill-posting business.

Harold Gardner

He was a master mechanic and machinist who worked for IBM, Endicott Johnson, City of Binghamton, and Link Aviation as well as Pratt-Whitney during the Second World War, troubleshooting aircraft engines.

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

In 1889 the first Machinist Union convention was held with 34 locals represented, in the chambers of the Georgia State Senate.

James Banning

He was a passenger in a two-seater Travelaire biplane flown by Navy machinist mate second class Albert Burghardt, who was at the controls because Banning had been refused use of the airplane by an instructor at the Airtech Flying School.

Joy buzzer

Adams brought a rather large prototype of his newly designed buzzer to Dresden, Germany, where a machinist created the tools that would make the parts for a new palm size Joy Buzzer.

Kirk Kelly

Later, while working in an airline's reservation office Kelly worked as a "white collar member" of the machinist's union.

Plague Recordings

Artists included Maarten van der Vleuten (Netherlands), Scanner (UK), The Caretaker (UK/Germany), vidnaObmana (Belgium), Moljebka Pvlse (Sweden), Ondo (Sweden), Machinist & Mendel Kaelen (Netherlands).

Polysius

In spring 1859, master machinist Andreas Ernst Gottfried Polysius opened his own workshop in Dessau, thereby laying the foundations for today's global player - Polysius AG.

Robert McCracken

McCracken worked as a wood machinist at Hoskins Cabinet Works, Bordesley, Birmingham before turning to boxing.

Rufus Blodgett

Born in Dorchester, New Hampshire; attended the common schools and Wentworth Academy; learned the machinist's trade; moved to New Jersey in 1866 and settled in Long Branch, New Jersey; builder of railroad equipment; president of the Long Branch City Bank.

Seka Aleksić

Her father worked as a machinist and her mother was an employee at the Drina football club.

Tews

George L. Tews (1883–1936), machinist, businessman and real estate broker from Milwaukee

Thomas C. Cooney

Cooney was born July 18, 1853 in Westport, Nova Scotia, and after entering the navy he was sent as a Chief Machinist to fight in the Spanish–American War aboard the U.S. Torpedo Boat Winslow.

William Quick

William F. Quick, American machinist, lawyer, judge and Wisconsin State senator


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