stationary engineer
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Crabtree, a retired hospital stationary engineer had already planned on leaving home the morning of July 26 for a golf tournament in remote Modoc County.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2018
I learned that in 1907 Louis completed an engineering degree from the International Correspondence School of Scranton and that by 1910 he had begun a career as a stationary engineer for the U.S.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2011
Mack was founded by John Mack, a Brooklyn stationary engineer who had two brothers in the wagon-building business.
From Time Magazine Archive
No matter what occupation, sea-cook or stationary engineer, sand teamster or warehouseman, in every case there was an idle worker ready to do the work.
From War of the Classes by Jack London
Not being a man of wealth, however, nor one satisfied with superficial observation, he had sought employment at his trade as stationary engineer.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Harry Alverson Franck
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