His father was a machinist and blacksmith. Chrysler apprenticed in the railroad shops at Ellis as a machinist and railroad mechanic. A Freemason, Chrysler began his career as a machinist and railroad mechanic in Ellis. His qualifications as a machinist led to an assignment as a gunsmith. So, for the next few years he worked as a machinist and CNC programmer. They are both a Welder and a machinist. Schlafly's father was a machinist and salesman of industrial equipment, principally for Westinghouse. She has an older brother, Travis, who is a railroad machinist. Zeiss was, from the beginning, more a fine machinist than an optician. Gauge blocks were invented in 1896 by Swedish machinist Carl Edvard Johansson. Her father was a machinist and her mother a manicurist. Started working as a machinist there. The working prototype was made by the machinist Matthias Schwalbach. Machine tools are then configured by the machinist or toolset and production commences. The workforce built up to some 800 men supervised by Edison machinist Charles Dean.