inventor

Example Sentences

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While not an inventor, Jobs -- who died in 2011 at age 56 -- was renowned for his uncompromising drive to marry technology with design to create products that were intuitive and hassle-free.

From Barron's

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

Indeed, one of her best-known pamphlets exposed him as the inventor of the mutton sleeve and the bicycle skirt.

From Literature

A family member who was an inventor, maybe, who might have a deep understanding of telephone technology.

From Literature

It used the name to sell a beer with a label featuring an image of the inventor Nikola Tesla.

From The Wall Street Journal