inventor

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Unruly salt-and-pepper hair in a long quaff, round glasses and broad smile give James Ortiz the look of a whimsical inventor, the kind that hides away in his workshop crafting extraordinary artifacts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Subsequently striking up a friendship with Charles Babbage, an inventor and mechanical engineer, Lovelace would become fascinated with his plans to build a complicated calculating machine.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Instead, the Admiralty fed information about their system to a naval officer named Frederick Dreyer, who was a capable gunnery officer but not the great inventor he fancied himself to be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

This was basically the argument made by Jamie Siminoff, the founder and head inventor of Ring, as he went on an apology tour of sorts to try and mitigate the post-Super Bowl damage.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

But the question for our purposes is whether the broad pattern of world history would have been altered significantly if some genius inventor had not been born at a particular place and time.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond