sperry

English Thesaurus

1. United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930) (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	applied scientist, engineer, technologist,
definition	:	a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	artificer, discoverer, inventor,
definition	:	someone who is the first to think of or make something (noun.person)