Prepositions after "invent"

"invent by" or "invent in"?

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In 50% of cases invent by is used

It is believed that the bass was invented by either G.

The Cyclotron was invented by Professor Ernest Lawrence.

This type of magnet was invented by Magnequench in the mid eighties.

Your Christian religion was invented by idiots, people who were as insane as you are.

This one was invented by the Write Brothers back in 1903 and used in the Write Flyer.

It is not something new, invented by the wit of man: radiation has always been there.

The game of basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith and the national teams get very little attention in Canada.

I've yet to hear of biased research the other way round (the UEA furore turned out to be invented by sceptics for example).

The Shunting Yard Algorithm was invented by Edsger Dijkstra around 1960 in connection with one of the first ALGOL 60 compilers.

As most anthropologists have recognised for decades, these are cautionary tales invented by men to justify their own dominance.

In 24% of cases invent in is used

Noodles were first invented in Persia.

Polo game was invented in Persia, some 500 years B.

Poker was also invented in Persia some 3,000 years ago.

The steel-framed version was invented in 1852 by the British industrialist, Samuel Fox.

The first calendar, composed of a year with 354 days, was invented in Medeo-Persia, 2000 B.

What is the chief factor behind it? BS Chauhan: Chess is a game which was invented in India.

Qanat or kanat, the underground water supply systems that are stretched several miles, were also invented in Persia.

Even the World Wide Web was invented in CERN's laboratories by Tim Berners-Lee and a computer created by Steve Jobs.

No weapon invented in the long history of warfare has so negated the dignity and worth of the human person as has the nuclear bomb.

The wheel was first invented in the cradle of civilization, the area that is known in History as Medeo-Persia, some 5,000 years ago.

In 8% of cases invent for is used

Sophisticated devices are being invented for early detection and neutralisation of bombs.

Many mechanical innovations now associated with the automobile were originally invented for tricycles.

It also uses the real names of Kerouac's friends instead of the fictional names he later invented for them.

A natural language is neither good nor bad considered in itself, for it is not designed or invented for a purpose.

Commenting on the kind of music he has invented for the play a Times of India writer Dibyajyajyoti Chaudhuri said,?? Music transcends all barriers, they say.

In 4% of cases invent at is used

The rudder was invented at the end of the 13th century.

In 2% of cases invent on is used

The grid-visualization method / Litany of Tarski was invented on LW as far as I currently know.

Africa is an exception, it would appear that for the last 10 000 year nothing has been invented on that continent.

In 2% of cases invent of is used

Before invent of five finger shoes, Cheap Five Finger Shoes always become the symbol of best footwear in the world.

In 1% of cases invent during is used

Chariots of war were invented during Cyrus the Great of Persia (559-529 B.

In case you can't tell them apart, One Direction are the band that Simon Cowell invented during the auditions for 2010's X Factor, out of some solo boys who weren't good enough on their own.

In 1% of cases invent with is used

What about these rogue arbitration panels, with their open-ended mandates? Again, investor-state dispute resolution was not invented with this agreement.

In 1% of cases invent out is used

These days a new mood in the gulf is about a precieved GCC nationalism invented out of nowhere.

In 1% of cases invent between is used

Is it possibly the underlying sexual tension I have invented between the two of us to pass the time DOES N'T EXIST?! Dave: Wow.

In 1% of cases invent as is used

Though invented as a tool to communicate, about half the paper in today's consumer society serves another purpose -- packaging.

In 1% of cases invent against is used

It does n't, though, explain the unrelenting viciousness of the smears they invented against Gore, which went way beyond simply liking George W.

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