Inventor
Inventor or inventor is the person who devises, creates, conceives, builds or develops something that did not exist before.
The word "inventor" comes from the Latin verb invenire (to invent, to find). Inventors often have a creative and inventive personality.
Inventors and inventors
The value and importance of inventions or discoveries makes it very difficult to establish which are the most relevant. Many discoveries see their potential after a time when their benefits can be extended to all or most of society.
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Historical epochs in advances, discoveries and inventions
The Renaissance and Leonardo da Vinci
One of the pioneers of some of the modern inventions was the creator and Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci; whose importance is not so much in his inventions, which due to the limitations of his time could not be proven as useful or practical; but because he inaugurated the methodology of modern science[citation needed], and in this sense he is the pioneer of all the inventions made after him. He taught that nature must be looked at systematically and must be investigated with curious eyes, because "wisdom is the daughter of experience"; and man can modify things through the projection and creation of mechanical instruments.
Enlightenment and scientific development
The era called Enlightenment was a European cultural and intellectual movement (mainly in France, England and Germany) that developed from the middle of the century XVII and having the French Revolution as a symbolic and problematic historical phenomenon. In some countries it lasted at least into the early years of the 19th century. It was named like this for its declared purpose of dispelling the darkness of humanity through the lights of reason. The 18th century is known, for this reason, as the Age of Enlightenment and the settlement of faith in progress. During the Enlightenment, advances were made in all fields, whether cultural, social, scientific or technical. In physics, optics, and mathematics, advances were impressive thanks to the contributions of Sir Isaac Newton and many other scholars. There are advances in botany and new fields such as political economy are inaugurated.
Industrial and technological revolutions
The Industrial Revolution was a time full of inventions. During the Industrial Revolution there was a radical economic, social and technological transformation. It began in the second half of the 18th century in the United Kingdom and spread a few decades later to much of Western Europe and North America and concluded between 1820 and 1840. During this period, the greatest set of economic, technological and social transformations in the history of humanity since the Neolithic period took place, which saw the transition from a rural economy based fundamentally on agriculture and trade to an urban, industrialized and mechanized economy.
Qualitative leaps in relation to discoveries and inventions also occur during the Second Industrial Revolution, the Third Industrial Revolution and the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0, all of which are also considered technological revolutions.