According to one tradition Pyrrichos was named after Pyrrichos, the legendary Laconian inventor of Pyrrhichios.

Dr. Corson said Ernest O. Lawrence, the legendary inventor of the particle accelerator called the cyclotron, assigned a problem in a Berkeley physics course that no student but Robert Wilson managed to solve.

This left Trask wondering if the Mardukan constitution hadn't been devised by Goldberg, the legendary Old Terran inventor who always did everything the hard way.

Hopeless, the people decided to send for Prospero Flanca, a legendary inventor who was well known for reviving many cities that were dying out.

Bole was the legendary inventor of equine physiognomy ("judging a horse's qualities from appearance").

The Cray 1, designed in 1976 by Seymour Cray, the legendary inventor, was notable in part because it was a round refrigerator-shaped cabinet encircled by a padded bench, which was just the thing for technicians who needed to work on the machine's innards.

For example, today Cab Calloway, the legendary inventor of "Hi-De-Ho," comes to Hempstead Town Park in Point Lookout at 7:30 P.M. to help people recall his "Minnie the Moocher" and "Caledonia."

The legendary inventor stood inside an isolated laboratory chamber within one of the most secure zones, pacing with his hands on his hips and frowning in disapproval.

Early in Nicholas Christopher's new novel, "Franklin Flyer," a legendary inventor explains that, contrary to popular belief, the purpose of invention is not the creation of an object that has never before existed.

Modern scholarship neither accepts the historicity of Shennong "Divine Farmer" (legendary inventor of agriculture, traditionally r. 2737-2697 BCE) nor that he wrote the Shennong bencao jing.