inventor | | |
n. (person) | 1. artificer, discoverer, inventor | someone who is the first to think of or make something. |
| ~ creator | a person who grows or makes or invents things. |
| ~ patentee | the inventor to whom a patent is issued. |
| ~ alexander bell, alexander graham bell, bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922). |
| ~ bessemer, sir henry bessemer | British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898). |
| ~ browning, john m. browning, john moses browning | United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926). |
| ~ burroughs, william seward burroughs | United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898). |
| ~ bushnell, david bushnell, father of the submarine | American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824). |
| ~ cartwright, edmund cartwright | English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823). |
| ~ daguerre, louis jacques mande daguerre | French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851). |
| ~ de forest, father of radio, lee de forest | United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961). |
| ~ eastman, george eastman | United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932). |
| ~ edison, thomas alva edison, thomas edison | United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931). |
| ~ fulton, robert fulton | American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815). |
| ~ gatling, richard jordan gatling | United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903). |
| ~ gillette, king camp gilette | United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932). |
| ~ goldmark, peter carl goldmark, peter goldmark | United States inventor (born in Hungary) who made the first TV broadcast in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948 and pioneered videocassette recording (1906-1977). |
| ~ charles goodyear, goodyear | United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860). |
| ~ hargreaves, james hargreaves | English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778). |
| ~ hero of alexandria, heron, hero | Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century). |
| ~ herman hollerith, hollerith | United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929). |
| ~ elias howe, howe | United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867). |
| ~ jacquard, joseph m. jacquard, joseph marie jacquard | French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834). |
| ~ din land, edwin herbert land, land | United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991). |
| ~ samuel pierpoint langley, langley | United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906). |
| ~ mauser, p. p. von mauser, peter paul mauser, von mauser | German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914). |
| ~ sir hiram stevens maxim, maxim | English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916). |
| ~ cyrus hall mccormick, cyrus mccormick, mccormick | United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884). |
| ~ mergenthaler, ottmar mergenthaler | United States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899). |
| ~ samuel f. b. morse, samuel finley breese morse, samuel morse, morse | United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872). |
| ~ eadweard muybridge, edward james muggeridge, muybridge | United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904). |
| ~ elisha graves otis, otis | United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861). |
| ~ isaac m. singer, isaac merrit singer, singer | United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875). |
| ~ elmer ambrose sperry, sperry | United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930). |
| ~ francis edgar stanley, stanley | United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918). |
| ~ charles proteus steinmetz, steinmetz | United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923). |
| ~ fox talbot, talbot, william henry fox talbot | English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877). |
| ~ nikola tesla, tesla | United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943). |
| ~ james watt, watt | Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819). |
| ~ george westinghouse, westinghouse | United States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914). |
| ~ sir charles wheatstone, wheatstone | English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875). |
| ~ eli whitney, whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825). |
| ~ orville wright, wright | United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948). |
| ~ wilbur wright, wright | United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912). |
| ~ count ferdinand von zeppelin, zeppelin | German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917). |
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