Famous Inventors

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Invention stories are almost always wrong in the popular telling, usually because the person who commercialised something has outlived the person who built it in the historical record. Draw an inventor and read one proper account. The disputes are the interesting part, and several here were robbed in ways that are still argued about. Thirty-five figures across four centuries. School projects work well on this draw because the research has a natural shape: what, when, and who else claimed it.