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)
“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)
“They will call you the annihilators of morals: but you are simply the inventors of yourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)