Sentence examples for railway engineer from inspiring English sources

In late 19th-century Germany, Karl Benz, son of a railway engineer, began experimenting with engines and eventually put together a tiny, one-cylinder engine that featured three critical innovations still in use today -- an electric battery, spark plug and electric coil ignition.

The style of the new locomotive reflected the Midland Railway influence of another of Maunsell's assistants, the ex-Midland Railway engineer James Clayton.

Some of the party were last-minute additions: Adrian Donnelly, a railway engineer who had never been to sea, became Aurora's second engineering officer, while Lionel Hooke, the wireless operator, was an 18-year-old apprentice.

Because he continued being a railway engineer.

Opposite him, Faisal Imran, a visiting railway engineer, listened sympathetically to the mournful stationmaster.

A retired railway engineer, he likened his relationship with jade to an overpriced college education.

Shanno's father was a railway engineer posted with the princely state of Jodhpur.

One railway engineer said: "Railtrack has not got a handle on who's where.

The first chairlift was installed in Sun Valley in 1936 after its invention by Union Pacific Railway engineer James Curran.

The Isolating Life of a Railway Engineer.

The Weird and Isolating Life of a Railway Engineer.