Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...improvement of intellectual relations between Germany and the United States. It is limited to the improvement of mutual relations and interests in research, scholarship, education, professional courtesies, literature, and art. Professor Hugo Muensterberg, who is exchange professor at the University of Berlin for the current academic year, is the inventor and promoter of the enterprise and is serving as the first director of the "Institut." It has been endowed for $20,000 by German-American bankers and other persons who are interested in the advance of social and educational co-operation between the citizens of the two countries...
Robert Fulton, although he neither invented nor first applied the principles of the steamboat, has been hailed as its inventor simply because he had the breadth of imagination and the enthusiasm to embody the impractical ideas of his predecessors in a useful form. And he deserves the credit he is given; for, according to Lord Telford, who said, "Engineering is the art of directing the great sources and powers of nature for the use and convenience of man," he was a true civil engineer...