[f. next + -IST.] One versed in technology; one who studies or treats of arts and manufactures.
1791. trans. Gottling’s Chemistry, 181. The Technologist occupies himself in searching after and investigating the various productions of nature—not in order to arrange them in a convenient system, but with a view to improve and manufacture them to the advantage of the country he lives in, and to render them of general utility.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 437. European technologists have … vainly proposed theoretical methods for the operation.
1884. P. Higgs, Magn. Dynamo-Electr. Mach., vi. 140. In a book such as this, intended for the use of technologists, it will be necessary to discuss those theoretical principles.
