#inventor__discoverer__artificer  someone who is the first to think of or make something
  supertype:  creator  a person who grows or makes or invents things
  instance:  Alexander_Graham_Bell  Sir_Henry_Bessemer  John_Moses_Browning  William_Seward_Burroughs  Edmund_Cartwright  Louis_Jacques_Mande_Daguerre  Lee_De_Forest  George_Eastman  Thomas_Alva_Edison  Robert_Fulton  Richard_Jordan_Gatling  Gillette  Peter_Carl_Goldmark  Charles_Goodyear  James_Hargreaves  Hero_of_Alexandria  Herman_Hollerith  Elias_Howe  Joseph_Marie_Jacquard  Edwin_Herbert_Land  Samuel_Pierpoint_Langley  Peter_Paul_Mauser  Sir_Hiram_Stevens_Maxim  Cyrus_Hall_McCormick  Ottmar_Mergenthaler  Samuel_Finley_Breese_Morse  Eadweard_Muybridge  Elisha_Graves_Otis  Isaac_Merrit_Singer  Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry  Francis_Edgar_Stanley  Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz  William_Henry_Fox_Talbot  Nikola_Tesla  James_Watt  George_Westinghouse  Sir_Charles_Wheatstone  Eli_Whitney  Orville_Wright  Wilbur_Wright  Count_Ferdinand_von_Zeppelin
  subtype:  patentee  the inventor to whom a patent is issued

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