electriciann.

1749 B. Franklin Let. 29 Apr. in Papers (1961) III. 365 A Turky is to be killed for our Dinners by the Electrical Shock; and roasted by the electrical Jack, before a Fire kindled by the Electrified Bottle; when the Healths of all the Famous Electricians in England, France and Germany, are to be drank in Electrified Bumpers, under the Discharge of Guns from the Electrical Battery.

1775 L. Carter Diary 30 July (1965) II. 932 It lightned all last night..without thunder. Perhaps, as the Electricians say, it was unenubelated explosions of the electrick fluid discharging itself.

1826 Lancet 16 Dec. 362/2 There may be some among the licentiates, educated to the lower grades of the profession, as dispensers, tooth-drawers, cuppers and electricians.

1867 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 33 397 Those physicists and electricians who have adopted the British-Association unit for electrical measurements.

1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 4 The electrician had gone to Brest to repair a fault in the French cable.

1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 83 The living body..is a storehouse of electricity, and exists under certain conditions of what the electrician calls ‘inductance’ and ‘capacity’.

1937 Life 1 Nov. 98/2 Stars rebelled at standing on sets while cameramen and electricians got everything ready to shoot a scene.

1956 N. Coward Diary 27 June (2000) 325 Chaos is the word: acres of packing cases, armies of overpaid workmen, carpenters, painters, electricians, masons, etc., all hammering, whistling, roaring jokes at each other.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Mar. d8/1 He has an electrician install a junction box or two in the center of the ceiling.