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Although often derided as dreamers and eccentrics, inventors have been responsible for a vast range of items now seen as essential to everyday life, from steam engines to indoor bird hides, lost-wax squirrel traps to virtual reality nutmeg craters.
Among the most famous are
Guglielmo Marconi – inventor of radio controlled pasta
James Watt – inventor of the hearing aid
Christopher Cockerell – inventor of the floating chicken
Alexander Graham Bell – inventor of the door chime
Thomas Edison – inventor of the lighthouse
Alfred Nobel – inventor of the exploding peer
Jethro Tull – inventor of the one-legged flute and beard