noun
1. someone who is the first to think of or make something
• Hypernyms: ↑creator
• Hyponyms: ↑patentee
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Bell, ↑Alexander Bell, ↑Alexander Graham Bell, ↑Bessemer, ↑Sir Henry Bessemer, ↑Browning, ↑John M. Browning, ↑John Moses Browning, ↑Burroughs, ↑William Seward Burroughs, ↑Bushnell, ↑David Bushnell, ↑Father of the Submarine, ↑Cartwright, ↑Edmund Cartwright, ↑Daguerre, ↑Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, ↑De Forest, ↑Lee De Forest, ↑Father of Radio, ↑Eastman, ↑George Eastman, ↑Edison, ↑Thomas Edison, ↑Thomas Alva Edison, ↑Fulton, ↑Robert Fulton, ↑Gatling, ↑Richard Jordan Gatling, ↑Gillette, ↑King Camp Gilette, ↑Goldmark, ↑Peter Goldmark, ↑Peter Carl Goldmark, ↑Goodyear, ↑Charles Goodyear, ↑Hargreaves, ↑James Hargreaves, ↑Hero, ↑Heron, ↑Hero of Alexandria, ↑Hollerith, ↑Herman Hollerith, ↑Howe, ↑Elias Howe, ↑Jacquard, ↑Joseph M. Jacquard, ↑Joseph Marie Jacquard, ↑Land, ↑Din Land, ↑Edwin Herbert Land, ↑Langley, ↑Samuel Pierpoint Langley, ↑Mauser, ↑von Mauser, ↑P. P. von Mauser, ↑Peter Paul Mauser, ↑Maxim, ↑Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, ↑McCormick, ↑Cyrus McCormick, ↑Cyrus Hall McCormick, ↑Mergenthaler, ↑Ottmar Mergenthaler, ↑Morse, ↑Samuel Morse, ↑Samuel F. B. Morse, ↑Samuel Finley Breese Morse, ↑Muybridge, ↑Eadweard Muybridge, ↑Edward James Muggeridge, ↑Otis, ↑Elisha Graves Otis, ↑Singer, ↑Isaac M. Singer, ↑Isaac Merrit Singer, ↑Sperry, ↑Elmer Ambrose Sperry, ↑Stanley, ↑Francis Edgar Stanley, ↑Steinmetz, ↑Charles Proteus Steinmetz, ↑Talbot, ↑Fox Talbot, ↑William Henry Fox Talbot, ↑Tesla, ↑Nikola Tesla, ↑Watt, ↑James Watt, ↑Westinghouse, ↑George Westinghouse, ↑Wheatstone, ↑Sir Charles Wheatstone, ↑Whitney, ↑Eli Whitney, ↑Wright, ↑Orville Wright, ↑Wilbur Wright, ↑Zeppelin, ↑Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
2. someone who is the first to observe something
• Hypernyms: ↑perceiver, ↑percipient, ↑observer, ↑beholder
• Hyponyms: ↑co-discoverer
Useful english dictionary. 2012.