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Perhaps Bell and Edison's financial backers have change of heart (9)

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inventors

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(Other definitions for inventors that I've seen before include "Innovators, originators" , "Bell, Edison etc." , "They create useful objects" , "Originators, creators" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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