inventor

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Woods would spend years in court in direct contention with the nation’s most formidable inventor, a struggle that would earn him the respect of the engineering community and, eventually, Edison himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

One day, an aspiring inventor brought in a knitting machine that he was working on, which may have planted a seed in Howe’s mind for his future creation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

A British Bitcoin entrepreneur has told the BBC he is not the digital currency's mysterious inventor after a New York Times article named him as its creator.

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

That makes it difficult for an inventor to foresee whether his or her awful prototype might eventually find a use and thus warrant more time and expense to develop it.

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