Last month, however, an engineer in San Diego named Carl Durrenberger read the rules and realized they were neither unwritten nor Mr. Swanson's.

"Not an engineer named Dr. Radovas, is it?"

Then the engineers of Newmont Gold dug a pit, 27 miles northwest of Elko, and named it Gold Quarry.

A top engineer for an obscure but prestigious defense think-tank named the Erica Corporation, Sandlake did everything but make the coffee for Project Chesapeake Bay.

We have a Kelvan on board, Ben Zoma explained, an engineer named Jomar who seems to know Nuyyad tactical systems pretty well.

According to some accounts, the engineers marked the spot on the map and named it "rocky hill.

But the Wertheimers were wilier: they bought almost 50 percent of an airplane propeller company run by a French engineer (and an Aryan) named Félix Amiot.

Microsoft calls this optical technology Intellieye, which proves how dangerous it can be to let engineers name the baby.

In 1998, through a lengthy trial and error process, an English engineer named John Edmonds rediscovered the secret of how to dye Tyrian purple.

An engineer on the project, Louis G. Arnold, named the lake by combining the beginning of "Wisconsin" and the ending of "Minnesota".