discoverer

1. Someone who is the first to think of or make something (synset 110234307)
   is a type of: creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
   subtypes: patentee - the inventor to whom a patent is issued
   specific instances:

   • alexander bell, alexander graham bell, bell - United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
   • bessemer, sir henry bessemer - British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)
   • browning, john m. browning, john moses browning - United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
   • burroughs, william seward burroughs - United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898)
   • bushnell, david bushnell, father of the submarine - American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824)
   • cartwright, edmund cartwright - English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
   • daguerre, louis jacques mande daguerre - French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851)
   • de forest, father of radio, lee de forest - United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)
   • eastman, george eastman - United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)
   • edison, thomas alva edison, thomas edison - United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
   • fulton, robert fulton - American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
   • gatling, richard jordan gatling - United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)
   • gillette, king camp gilette - United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)
   • goldmark, peter carl goldmark, peter goldmark - United States inventor (born in Hungary) who made the first TV broadcast in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948 and pioneered videocassette recording (1906-1977)
   • charles goodyear, goodyear - United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860)
   • hargreaves, james hargreaves - English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778)
   • hero, hero of alexandria, heron - Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
   • herman hollerith, hollerith - United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)
   • elias howe, howe - United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)
   • jacquard, joseph m. jacquard, joseph marie jacquard - French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
   • din land, edwin herbert land, land - United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
   • langley, samuel pierpoint langley - United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)
   • mauser, p. p. von mauser, peter paul mauser, von mauser - German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914)
   • maxim, sir hiram stevens maxim - English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)
   • cyrus hall mccormick, cyrus mccormick, mccormick - United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884)
   • mergenthaler, ottmar mergenthaler - United States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899)
   • morse, samuel f. b. morse, samuel finley breese morse, samuel morse - United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
   • eadweard muybridge, edward james muggeridge, muybridge - United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904)
   • elisha graves otis, otis - United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
   • isaac m. singer, isaac merrit singer, singer - United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)
   • elmer ambrose sperry, sperry - United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)
   • francis edgar stanley, stanley - United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
   • charles proteus steinmetz, steinmetz - United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923)
   • fox talbot, talbot, william henry fox talbot - English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
   • nikola tesla, tesla - United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
   • james watt, watt - Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
   • george westinghouse, westinghouse - United States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914)
   • sir charles wheatstone, wheatstone - English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875)
   • eli whitney, whitney - United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
   • orville wright, wright - United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)
   • wilbur wright, wright - United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)
   • count ferdinand von zeppelin, zeppelin - German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)
   same as: artificer, inventor
2. Someone who is the first to observe something (synset 110110267)
   is a type of: beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient - a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
   subtypes: co-discoverer - someone who is the first of two or more people to discover something
   same as: finder, spotter

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