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Count István Széchenyi, a great innovator of his age, imported the technology and expertise of the British Industrial Revolution to help Hungary’s own reform programme.
Current critical consensus is that de Hooch was the innovator, Vermeer the perfecter, while current taste (as evidenced by the overwhelming attendance at the Vermeer show in Washington three years ago) prefers Vermeer.
When it comes to the revolving door, Alexis Herman is less of a Bigfoot than Barbour but more of an innovator.
Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.
Tradition, for that matter, coexisted with experimentation, so that it is not always immediately obvious which is which--you might not realize from listening that Blind Lemon Jefferson was an innovator who transformed the blues and influenced every subsequent artist in the genre, or that the shape-note singing of the Sacred Harp choirs represents a late vestige of a style that may have reached its acme of prevalence around the time of the American Revolution.