Inventors
- Thomas Edison, inventor, entrepreneur (born in Milan, Ohio; later settled in Port Huron')
- Robert Jarvik, medical inventor (born in Midland)
- Elijah McCoy, steam engine lubricator inventor—origin of the phrase "the real McCoy" (born in Colchester, Ontario; moved to Ypsilanti)
- Sid Meier, "father of computer gaming", created the groundbreaking computer game Civilization among others (born in Sarnia, Ontario moved to Detroit)
- Ephraim Shay, inventor of the Shay locomotive (born in Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio; moved to Harbor Springs)
- Allan R. Thieme inventor of the "Amigo", the first power-operated vehicle/scooter for individuals with walking limitations (born in Bridgeport)
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Famous quotes containing the word inventors:
“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“They will call you the annihilators of morals: but you are simply the inventors of yourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“In America, the geography is sublime, but the men are not: the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)