ELMER AMBROSE SPERRY Synonyms

• someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use)

• photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film

• a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

• the operator of a railway locomotive

• design as an engineer

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

• someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

• inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• a worker who makes metal castings

• fail utterly; collapse

• sink below the surface

• break down, literally or metaphorically

• stumble and nearly fall

• someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• someone who is the first to think of or make something

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area

• United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)