inventor

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Individual who is the first to develop or manufacturer something. An inventor may invent something totally from scratch or may build upon an already established foundation. "Alexander Graham Bell has been accredited with the invention of the telephone, but a number of other inventors suggested that Bell simply used their developed prototypes to create a working telephone."


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