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Definition of Inventors
1. inventor [n] - See also: inventor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inventors
Literary usage of Inventors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1917)
"What motives actuate inventors; what factors cause them to invent? ... Of the
inventors in our list for whom information as to the occupation of the father ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"The Taxation of inventors. By LEWIS EDMUNDS, D.Sc. There are few classes of the
community, in a manufacturing and industrial country like Great Britain, ..."
3. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"Under the construction given to the word " inventors " by the English courts,
... To what inventors and for what inventions patents may be issued, ..."
4. Ten Years in Washington: Or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital by Mary Clemmer (1882)
"THE BUREAU OF PATENTS—CRAZY inventors AND WONDERFUL INVENTIONS. ... Dollars—How
Patentees are Protected—The American System—What American inventors Have ..."
5. The History of the American People by Charles Austin Beard, William Chandler Bagley (1920)
"The Army of Industry : inventors, Business Men, and Artisans The Great Service
Rendered by inventors. — Among the millions of individuals who worked in our ..."
6. The Inventive Thinking Curriculum Project by Marion Canedo (1990)
"The following stories about Great Thinkers and inventors will help to motivate
your students and enhance their appreciation of the contributions of ..."