electricianship

We certainly agree with the author as to the repugnance and undesirability and we trust that this will be counted to us as a sign of true electricianship—but we wish now to discuss another matter which the author has treated in a way not entirely to our liking.

1933 February 28, “The Principles of Electromagnetism”, in The Wireless Engineer, volume 10, number 113, page 62

She had learned her electricianship in czarist Russia where sheltered young ladies of good family took such a course along with their music and French, to the timeless bemusement of any Westerner.

1959, Ellen Marsh, Unarmed In Paradise, New York: Macmillan, page 186

Kienholz has the unique ability to make things as a combination workman and set designer, who is expert in the skills of carpentry, metalsmithing, electricianship and judgment.

1968, Edward Kienholz, The Art Show, page 12

It struck me forcefully at this moment in the fine illumination my electricianship had provided that it was now doubly mad for her to seek the um.

1970, Hazard Adams, The Truth About Dragons: An Anti-Romance, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 164

The first set of trainees will graduate in 1996 (in electricianship, carpentry, metalwork and pottery), and will be provided with start-up toolkits to set up workshops. ACORD aims gradually to reduce the centre's dependence on agency funding and eventually to put the centre in direct contact with donors.

1996, Nicolas Hall, Robert Hart, Diana Mitlin, editors, The Urban Opportunity: The Work of NGOs in Cities of the South, Intermediate Technology Publications, page 26