Dædalus, an architect and mechanician in the Greek mythology; inventor and constructor of the Labyrinth of Crete, in which the Minotaur was confined, and in which he was also imprisoned himself by order of Minos, a confinement from which he escaped by means of wings fastened on with wax; was regarded as the inventor of the mechanic arts.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Da Costa, Isaac * Daghestan