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(thing) by Pedro (3.9 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:59:08

A person who uses applied science to solve practical problems by doing countless experiments, forming a hypothesis and usually produces a product. Most of the time, they never get rewarded, instead some nameless corporation rips it off and makes billions...

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Of course this is just one more example of the US-Centricity on Everything...


The National Inventors Hall of Fame-- http://www.invent.org/book/
Last Updated 05.11.04


(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:31:51

In*vent"or (?), n. [L.: cf. F. inventeur.]

One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.

 

© Webster 1913.


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Nikola Tesla William Seward Burroughs Louis Pasteur R.G. LeTourneau
"Hey wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" rule Inventors have one hand in the junk drawer Philo T. Farnsworth Chester F. Carlson
Leonardo da Vinci Robert Goddard Thomas Edison Luther Burbank
Eli Whitney James Watt Guglielmo Marconi Alfred Nobel
Rasmus Malling Hansen Jay W. Forrester George Eastman John Gorrie
John Deere Alexander Graham Bell Samuel Morse Kodak
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