Inventor
- Lawrence Hargrave (1850-1915), Australian inventor, explorer, astronomer, engineer and aeronautical pioneer
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Famous quotes containing the word inventor:
“Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One must be an inventor to read well.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I have defeated them all.... I was left with some money to battle with the world when quite young, and at the present time have much to feel proud of.... The Lord gave me talent, and I know I have done good with it.... For my brains have made me quite independent and without the help of any man.”
—Harriet A. Brown, U.S. inventor and educator. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 8, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)