The driver would be accompanied by a riding mechanic (or ""mechanician""). Passepartout is Phileas' valet, and an accomplished inventor/mechanician. Riding mechanics were also referred to by the term mechanician. In 1951 the talented mechanician Waaske became camera constructor. The abilities are separated into five trees&colon; Spiritual Guide, Wind Master, Mechanician, Wildling, and Physicist. His brother is also noted as a mechanician for his work on clocks. The Mechanician, for example, crafts clockwork automata to cast his spells. Names other than mechanician have been used occasionally, such as mechaniker and mechanicist. By 1766, Merlin was working as a mechanician with British jeweller and goldsmith James Cox.