Sentence examples for made inventor from inspiring English sources

Play-doh, which was originally designed for cleaning wallpaper, made inventor Joseph McVicker a millionaire by his 27th birthday.

In a February cover letter to the budget outline for 2003, he suggested his agency is so backlogged that unless fundamental changes are made, inventors soon may have to wait more than three years to be issued a patent.

Patents that could not be defended would be worth less, opponents warned, and that would make inventors reluctant to spend money on research and innovation.

In Piaget's words: "… education means making creators… You have to make inventors, innovators not conformists" (Bringuier, 1980).

You should see how chill Spire has made its inventor Neema Moraveji.

Others played notes referencing a Spanish cathedral or a tuning fork made by inventor John Shore.

But then came an engineering breakthrough that nearly wiped out the hiss, and made the inventor's name — Dolby — world-famous.

Invented by Leo Baekeland in 1907, Bakelite was the first industrial plastic, used in a variety of products, including costume jewelry and land mines, and it made its inventor a wealthy man.

"Ray Dolby made the inventors the heroes of the company," Kevin Yeaman, the chief executive of Dolby Laboratories, said in a telephone interview on Friday.

We found similar patterns in the two countries, although citation is provided by patent examiners in Japan, while in the US a large share of citations is made by inventors.

Tamara Monosoff, author of "The Mom Inventors Handbook: How to Turn Your Great Idea Into the Next Big Thing" (McGraw Hill 2005), cites inflated expectations as the No. 1 mistake made by inventors and entrepreneurs.