In 1797 Henry Maudslay, also of England and one of the great inventive geniuses of his day, designed and built a screw-cutting engine lathe.
He praised him as "a great inventive landscape painter" able "to give the far higher and deeper truth of mental vision, rather than that of the physical facts".
If this Seventh lacked the personal stamp that a great, inventive conductor might have given it, it was an exciting, solidly played and often subtly shaped account all the same.
In a 2001 paper on dyslexia, he wrote: "It seems possible that great artistic, inventive, political and entrepreneurial talent may be commoner among dyslexics than might be expected".
While Mr. Wright's movie goes to great, often inventive lengths to tell the tale visually, it dutifully preserves great swaths of the playwright's verse and often ramps down its machine-gun-style editing and jittery handheld camera work to allow sensuous language and the cast's consistently imaginative, lively performances to take center stage.
If you have kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews or if the idea of just walking through aisle after aisle of the latest toys from some of the greatest, most inventive toymakers in the world appeals to you, then you can't afford to pass up a visit to Kiddy Land.
He will be remembered not only as one of the great and most inventive potters of his generation, but as a remarkably tenacious and warm human being.
And that was echoed by Carrie-Ann Philbin, a great evangelist for inventive ways of using technology in the classroom, who's just joined Raspberry Pi: "It sounds like a steep learning curve," she admitted when I asked whether older teachers might be intimidated by coding.
This is the figure we have come to love — the great-hearted, endlessly inventive Dickens — and if we had to part with Great Expectations or Little Dorrit we would feel our lives sadly diminished.
Pharrell had previously produced some of the Snoop's greatest and more inventive hits, not least 2004's "Drop It Like It's Hot", his first US No 1, based on a stripped-back, sparse production using the sound of a spray can as a rhythm track.
And both introduce, by way of inventive weaponry, great balls of fire.
