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mechanic
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A mechanic is a skilled tradesperson who uses tools to build, maintain, or repair machinery, especially engines. Formerly, the term meant any member of the handicraft trades, but by the early 20th century, it had come to mean one who works with machinery.
Key facts
- Occupation.name
- Mechanic
- Occupation.image
- Lewis Hine Power house mechanic working on steam pump.jpg
- Occupation.caption
- A mechanic at a steam pump in an electric power house, 1920, (from a photo study for the Works Progress Administration (WPA)).
- Occupation.type
- Skilled trades
- Occupation.activity_sector
- Repairing
- Occupation.formation
- Apprenticeship
- Occupation.related_occupation
- Repairperson
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- position
- Subclass of
- worker
- Patron saint
- Catherine of Alexandria
- Field of occupation
- maintenance
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- female form of label
- jimufavan
- male form of label
- mecânico
- different from
- mechanician
- Commons category
- Mechanics (occupation)
- topic's main category
- Category:Mechanics (trade)
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Duties
- Types of mechanics
- Automotive mechanics
- References
A mechanic is a skilled tradesperson who uses tools to build, maintain, or repair machinery, especially engines. Formerly, the term meant any member of the handicraft trades, but by the early 20th century, it had come to mean one who works with machinery.
==Duties== Most mechanics specialize in a particular field, such as auto body mechanics, diesel mechanics, air conditioning and refrigeration mechanics, auto mechanics, bicycle mechanics, boiler mechanics, race car mechanics, aircraft mechanics, and other areas. There are also mobile mechanics who perform onsite work.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mechanic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.