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Alexander Graham Bell |
U.S. inventor of the telephone (b.1847--d.1922). |
Archimedes |
a Greek mathematician and inventor (287?-212 B.C.). |
artificer |
a person skilled in designing and constructing things; inventor. [1/2 definitions] |
Benjamin Franklin |
U.S. statesman, inventor, diplomat, postmaster, scientist, and author, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America (b. 1706--d. 1790). |
coinventor |
combined form of inventor. |
Henry Ford |
U.S. automobile manufacturer and inventor who created the Ford Motor company and pioneered mass production of automobiles (b.1863--d.1947). |
James Watt |
a Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam engine (b.1736--d.1819). |
Johann Gutenberg |
a German printer considered to be the inventor of the system of printing with movable type (b.1400?--d.1468?). |
Nikola Tesla |
a Croatian-born U.S. inventor who developed alternating electric current (b.1856--d.1943). |
patent |
a government grant to an inventor, giving for a specified period the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invented device, process, or the like. [1/7 definitions] |
patented |
having a patent, a legal protection that allows an inventor the sole rights to make, use, or sell what he or she has invented for a particular period of time. |
Samuel Morse |
a U.S. artist and inventor (b.1791--d.1872). |
Thomas Alva Edison |
a U.S. inventor (b.1847--d.1931). |
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