Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. Although some inventors may also be scientists, most of them are engineers in fact as they base their work on the discoveries of other scientists, experimenting with practical applications and combinations of those discoveries, and with improvements and combinations of existing devices, to create new useful devices.

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Inventorship is a key determination in establishing patent rights. The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term, limited monopoly on inventions determined to be sufficiently novel, non-obvious, and useful. In the U.S. the patent right originates from the intellectual property clause of the Constitution.

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The capacity to invent can be developed. See TRIZ, the theory of inventive problem-solving.

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Invention: :In music, an invention is a short composition with two or three part counterpoint. See Invention (music)...

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Engineer: An engineer is someone who practices the profession of engineering – a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems using technology....

Inventor related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Inventor's Laboratory	Inventor Thomas Edison Posing in His Laboratory	The Inventor Alexander Graham Bell Flying His Tetrahedral Kite	Swiss-American Inventor Thomas Avoskan's Motor Cycle with Skates
Nikola Tesla Serbian Inventor in His American Laboratory	Antonio Meucci Telephone Inventor and Friend of Garibaldi	The "Theatre Optique" and Its Inventor Emile Reynaud with a Scene from "Pauvre Pierrot"	Thomas Alva Edison American Inventor in His Workshop at West Orange New Jersey
Samuel Crompton the Inventor of the Spinning Machine Called the Mule	Thomas Alva Edison American Inventor on His 77th Birthday in His West Orange Laboratory	Thomas Alva Edison American Inventor Speaking into His Perfected Phonograph	Joseph-Ignace Guillotin French Medical Inventor of the Guillotine