He put forward the claim that he was the first inventor of the machine.

他声称自己是最先发明那部机器的人。

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He was the first inventor to integrate an internal combustion engine with a chassis-designing both together.

他是第一个将内燃机与底盘结合起来的设计的发明家。

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The United States Supreme Court finally had to decide which of the two was the first inventor of the telephone.

美国联邦最高法院最终判决谁是电话的第一个发明者。

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American inventor Dean Kamen started FIRST in nineteen eighty-nine to increase young people's interest in science and technology.

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So the inventor of the chess game said, "Ok. What I like is on the first block, first square, I would like one grain of rice.

于是象棋发明者说，“好吧，我希望，在第一个方格上，我想要一粒大米。

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And Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi had sent the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean.

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In other words, the first inventor to file an application for an invention gets the patent, not the first person to invent something.

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Making the first inventor to file an application the owner.

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Our tradition ranges from Hiram S. Maxim, inventor of the first fully automatic machine gun, who was born in 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, to the renowned Bath Iron Works, which produces the world's most advanced surface warships.

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