HyperDic: inventor

Español > 1 sentido de la palabra inventor:
NOMBREperson inventor, artífice, autor, descubridorsomeone who is the first to think of or make something
Español > inventor: 1 sentido > nombre 1, person
Sentidosomeone who is the first to think of or make something.
Sinónimosartífice, autor, descubridor
CasosAlexander Bell, Alexander Graham BellUnited States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone / telephone (1847-1922)
Charles Goodyear, GoodyearUnited States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860)
Charles Proteus SteinmetzUnited States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923)
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande DaguerreFrench inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851)
David BushnellAmerican inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824)
Eadweard Muybridge, Edward James MuggeridgeUnited States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures / pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904)
Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas EdisonUnited States inventor
Edmund CartwrightEnglish clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
Edwin Herbert LandUnited States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
Eli Whitney, WhitneyUnited States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
Elias HoweUnited States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)
Elisha Graves OtisUnited States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, SperryUnited States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)
Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox TalbotEnglish inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
Gatling, Richard Jordan GatlingUnited States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)
George EastmanUnited 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)
George Westinghouse, WestinghouseUnited States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914)
Herman HollerithUnited States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)
Isaac Merrit Singer, Isaac M. Singer, SingerUnited States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)
James HargreavesEnglish inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778)
James WattScottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
John Moses BrowningUnited States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
Joseph Marie JacquardFrench inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
Lee De ForestUnited States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)
Nikola TeslaUnited 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)
Orville Wright, WrightUnited States aviation / aviation / aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)
Ottmar MergenthalerUnited States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899)
Peter Carl Goldmark, Peter GoldmarkUnited 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)
Robert FultonAmerican inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Samuel MorseUnited States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
Sir Hiram Stevens MaximEnglish inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)
StanleyUnited States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
Wilbur Wright, WrightUnited States aviation / aviation / aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)
William Seward BurroughsUnited States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898)
máuserGerman arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914)
GeneralcreadorA person who grows or makes or invents / invents things
Inglésinventor, discoverer, artificer
Catalánartífex, descobridor, inventor
Verbosdescubrir, encontrarmake a discovery, make a new finding
falsificar, formular, idear, inventar, tramarcome up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort / effort

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