Timothy Ainsworth is an inventor who would love to see all your weird stuff. He has weird stuff too if you want a look. That sounded kinda dirty to me upon a re-read but it isn't. They could also have been school friends!

We kinda talked about how George Robins might connect with him!

We spoke about Sage Macnair and Bibomancy things!

I likely have a whole bunch of other possibilities but I thought these three were the most promising/exciting to me to start with!