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inventor

[in-ven-ter] / ɪnˈvɛn tər /


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Women at the time couldn’t hold patents, but Sybilla Masters was acknowledged as the inventor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

She then co-founded Eastern Paper in Hartford, Conn., and kept working as an inventor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

But his claims were disregarded by the community and after years of claiming to be the inventor, a UK High Court judge ruled he was not Satoshi.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

A report in The New York Times claims to have identified the person who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamato, the inventor of bitcoin and one of the richest people on Earth.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Charles Willson Peale, noted painter, inventor, and collector of natural history objects, shut himself, his wife Betsy, and six of his children inside his large museum-residence.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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