tinkerer

He was an early and enthusiastic tinkerer in the new American style.

You're supposed to be the best tinkerers in the galaxy.

I, on the other hand, am far from sure the tinkerers trying to fix whatever is wrong with me will be successful.

Basically, it was a building full of very skilled tinkerers.

Tinkerers and students were kept at the far edge of the periphery.

As a professor himself, he was a compulsive and creative tinkerer.

He was also a tinkerer who liked electronics and machines, family members said.

Ever the tinkerer, Land worked for almost three years perfecting the process, until at last he had the film and camera ready.

But television tinkerers are trying to smooth these experiences - for profit or not.

You need tinkerers at every level of an organization who have intimate familiarity with what's going on.

First, as a lifelong tinkerer, I was fascinated by computers.

Ever the tinkerer, Norm made several changes using studio money to offset the cost.

We need more creative thinkers/tinkerers like him, and less bitterness.

He was a tinkerer, and liked to invent things in his spare time.

Meanwhile, the tinkerers are moving on to new applications.

"You've got a lot of tinkerers" among the astronaut corps, he said.

The pattern does seem like something a 19th-century tinkerer would have come up with to slow a typist down.

Guitarists tend to be tinkerers, both by nature and necessity.

General Powell, a noted tinkerer and handyman, until recently stopped in about once a week.

If you include all the home tinkerers and amateur naturalists, there must be several million in the country.

I tell you, we got into the mess we are in through the efforts of those same mind tinkerers.

He was a born tinkerer and a groundbreaker in early digital production.

Miles was known on the station for being an excellent "tinkerer and putterer".

I'm good with gadgets, and I became a tinkerer.

The 1986 reforms were not fully effective until this year, yet already the tinkerers would undo them.