And engineers, laboring nearly 200 feet beneath the earth, are drilling and blasting a tunnel 13 miles in circumference to house the giant device.
Along the way, he draws a compelling portrait of the engineer as a second-class citizen dwelling in the shadow of the "pure scientist," denied the glory of Nobel prizes (despite its namesake's wish to honor engineers), laboring patiently over endless calculations and losing sleep over possible errors.
While architecture students worked on the overall design and engineers labored over the energy plan, interior-design students considered self-sufficiency and sustainability in their plans.
While the engineers labored at computers to carry out his suggestions, Reznor sent a few texts, and when the engineers seemed to have taken longer than they should have he looked over their shoulders and said, "May I try something," and pressed some keys, and one of the engineers said, "I didn't know you could do that".
Still, it's hard to pin down the truth about why Mr. Smith, an engineer, labored single-handedly for more than a dozen years on a house that calls to mind grand follies like the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, Calif., built by the rifle company heiress Sarah L. Winchester.
A Representative of each wing of the coalition stood beside Mrs. Whitman today on the podium: Michael Catania, executive director of the Nature Conservancy of New Jersey, and Philip K. Beachem, president of the New Jersey Alliance for Action, an umbrella organization representing corporations, building contractors, engineers, labor unions, and the academic community.
Until World War I, the most common conception of the inventor was of a lone scientist or engineer laboring away in private, single-handedly coming up with a breakthrough during a Eureka ! moment.
In a warehouse deep inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a small team of carpenters, electricians and engineers have secretly labored for months on an assembly system for turning tubular steel chassis into fully equipped apartments that can be stacked and bolted together at a construction site.
OnePlus's engineers have apparently labored over scrolling and transitions to make them as smooth as possible -- and it shows.
The six-seat, twin-engine propeller plane was restored for the occasion by a volunteer team of Aer Lingus pilots and engineers — a "labor of love," as Mr. Mueller put it, as well as a source of comfort at a moment of wrenching austerity and economic uncertainty across Ireland.
Fox (2010) found that younger engineers supply labor more elastically than older engineers in Swedish firms, a result of lower switching costs.
