Inventor \In*vent"or\, n. [L.: cf. F. inventeur.]
   One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver;
   especially, one who invents mechanical devices, new drugs,
   new processes, or other useful objects or procedures.
   [1913 Webster +PJC]

	

	62 Moby Thesaurus words for "inventor":
   ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author,
   begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman,
   creative artist, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector,
   engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, fancier, fantasist,
   fantast, father, founder, generator, grower, imaginer, inaugurator,
   industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer,
   journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother,
   mythicizer, mythifier, mythmaker, mythopoet, organizer, original,
   originator, past master, patriarch, planner, poet, precursor,
   prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith,
   wright

	

	INVENTOR, n.  A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels,
levers and springs, and believes it civilization.