English > inventor: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who is the first to think of or make something. |
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| Synonyms | discoverer, artificer |
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| Instances | Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone / telephone (1847-1922) |
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| 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, Lee De Forest, Father of Radio | 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 Edison, Thomas Alva Edison | United States inventor |
| 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 Goldmark, Peter Carl 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) |
| Goodyear, Charles Goodyear | United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860) |
| Hargreaves, James Hargreaves | English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778) |
| Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria | Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) |
| Hollerith, Herman Hollerith | United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929) |
| Howe, Elias 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) |
| Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land | United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991) |
| Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley | United States astronomer and aviation / aviation / aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906) |
| Mauser, von Mauser, P. P. von Mauser, Peter Paul Mauser | German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914) |
| Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim | English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916) |
| McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Cyrus Hall 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) |
| Morse, Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse | United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) |
| Muybridge, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward James Muggeridge | United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures / pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904) |
| Otis, Elisha Graves Otis | United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861) |
| Singer, Isaac M. Singer, Isaac Merrit Singer | United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875) |
| Sperry, Elmer Ambrose Sperry | United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930) |
| Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley | United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918) |
| Steinmetz, Charles Proteus Steinmetz | United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923) |
| Talbot, Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot | English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877) |
| Tesla, Nikola 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) |
| Watt, James Watt | Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) |
| Westinghouse, George Westinghouse | United States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914) |
| Wheatstone, Sir Charles Wheatstone | English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875) |
| Whitney, Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) |
| Wright, Orville Wright | United States aviation / aviation / aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948) |
| Wright, Wilbur Wright | United States aviation / aviation / aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912) |
| Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin | German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917) |
| Narrower | patentee | The inventor to whom a patent / patent is issued |
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| Broader | creator | A person who grows or makes or invents / invents things |
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| Spanish | artífice, autor, descubridor, inventor |
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| Catalan | artífex, descobridor, inventor |
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| Verbs | invent | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort / effort |
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