Inventors
- David Alter – inventor, physicist and doctor
- Ottmar Mergenthaler – linotype inventor
- Thomas Nast – German-born American caricaturist; considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
- Gustave Whitehead – aviation pioneer, built first motorized plane
- Dietrich Gruen – timepiece or wristwatch maker. Founded the Gruen Watch Company in Ohio
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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)
“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)