How To Use Invent In A Sentence

I admire the inventiveness, and while not everything is a raging success, there's a lot to like.
Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
There wasn't a lot of information there; I had to expand on it, invent the colour scheme.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms. Physiology or Medicine for 1998 - Press Release
I'm afraid he is guilty of a good deal of invention.

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Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The invention concerns a cable drum having a non-cylindrical profile of its outer surface and the use of this cable drum in a window regulator system, particularly in a vehicle.
I believe it has its own atmosphere because it is built in what you call a caldera, but I may have picked that information up from like a Syfy TV movie about the Coming Global Superstorm, or invented it in my own mind. Television Without Pity
Credit, however, must go where it's due and there's one name that springs instantly to mind when considering the rise and rise of the re-invented jandal. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
He was one of the first 19th century sailors who tamed the seas through science, inventing systems for transporting cannon over marshy ground, ciphers for code and a system of hydrographical surveys.
Thereby, one-dimensional or multidimensional attribute of call events is displayed simultaneously through the invention.
The Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash.
In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced.
This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
The drug smugglers used an assortment of inventive packaging to hide their illegal shipments.
The patent lists six inventors who worked on the system.
Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.
Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction. Times, Sunday Times
As executrix you are required to value the home on the inventory you file with the court, so you could simply divide that number by four and base your offer on that value.
Dr Lotto has invented special paving slabs made of photovoltaic cells and recycled glass to harvest sunlight and to help power the structure. Times, Sunday Times
An inventor in Finland has devised a new method of keeping dogs safe from wolves: little protective vests. Times, Sunday Times
The hero of philately became an immortal, but all he really invented was the idea of the glue on the back.
The World Is Flat" & Co. were cyclones of breeziness, mixing metaphors by the dozens and whipping up slang and clichés and jokey catchphrases of the author's own invention. Shovel-Ready Shibboleths
So in the end they could only scrape through 1-0 with a goal by the ever inventive and adroit Dutchman, Dennis Bergkamp.
With poor mineral resources, its prospects as an independent, viable country were secured by the invention of refrigeration.
Its choreography is dense with invention, its dancers project a fine fierce physicality and an alert, emotional presence. Stephen Petronio Company – review
The invention of photography was also quickly seized on as proof of the supernatural world. Times, Sunday Times
There are parallels with Preston Tucker, the idealistic American inventor.
I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
This we would call a palpable lie were not so much of _The Bible in Spain_ sheer invention. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends
The difference is that these claims would once have been shouted down: it's what the phrase "boring old fart" was invented for. Stone Roses reunion: What's the worst that can happen?
Though it crush its victims to the earth; and tread them into the dust; and brutify them by every possible invention; it cannot totally extinguish the spirit of manhood within them. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
The story - probably apocryphal - is that William Webb Ellis at Rugby School in the nineteenth century picked up the ball during a soccer match and ran with it, inventing rugby.
This invention made a major contribution to road safety.
His maternal grandfather, who fled Russia to avoid conscription by the tsarist army, was a Hebrew scholar, mystic, mathematician, and inventor who made boots and shoes for a living.
Hale also gained prominence as an astronomer with his invention of the spectroheliograph and the discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots.
In the range of same frequency, compared with silicon-steel sheet components, the bulk amorphous metal magnetic component of the invention has greatly improved performance characteristic.
If you don't know what a carcake is which you probably don't, because as far as I know I invented the term, it's a great big loaf of snow that sits atop a motor vehicle after a snowstorm which the driver was either unable or unwilling to clear. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Cakes and Cheese
Thailand has constantly reinvented itself to stay ahead in the tourism game. Times, Sunday Times
A shame since it includes the weapons, sabotage devices and other inventions which undoubtedly frustrated the German forces.
In a manuscript written in 1299 by Pissazzo, the author says: "I find myself so pressed by age that I can neither read nor write without those glasses they call spectacles, lately invented, to the great advantage of poor old men when their sight grows weak. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
The Treasury offers antiques, collectibles and a small inventory of contemporary items.
He is shown seated before his famous invention: a ruling machine for producing concave diffraction gratings, which are slightly curved metal plates scored with minutely spaced lines that diffract light into spectra.
A multi-cyclone dust separator according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises at least three dust separation units for separating dust stepwise from relatively larger size.
Once you have a theme in mind, take a moment to inventory the decorative objects you already have around your house, then hit secondhand stores to complete the look you've chosen.
Candle makers, after all, cannot be expected to hail the invention of the electric light bulb, nor hostlers the advent of automobiles, nor canal-boat owners the building of railways, nor TV broadcasters the laying down of cable systems.
This invention relates to improvements in vertical continuous casting or the casting technique of obtaining cast pieces by drawing a strand formed in a water-cooled mold downward without incurvating, and then cutting the strand.
A tent has been invented by Major H.H. Sibley, of the army, which is known as the "_Sibley tent_. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
In a language that invents descriptive terms with drunken abandon, all food writers suffer from the meagre cupboard of gastronomic terms. Times, Sunday Times
Pasture fields were soil tested each year, and inventories were completed in the spring and summer for forage species, weeds, and bare ground percentage.
Smith concurs when it comes to upping his inventory of salmon-coral and deep hued pink wines.
A group of enthusiastic young inventors have seen their practical, bold and downright wacky ideas come to life, thanks to an inspiring project. Times, Sunday Times
They were crammed with what we term indirect workers—workers on their way to relieve a fellow employee, machine repairers en route to troubleshoot a problem, housekeepers, inventory runners. The Machine That Changed the World
They expected gasoline stockpiles to drop 1.7 million barrels and distillate inventories to fall 300,000 barrels. Oil Falls, Awaits Obama
All the males in one population sing the same song, but occasionally they invent an entirely new one.
The invention addresses this problem by visualizing an intervention (caused by a user) to an object of interest without the requirement of an interactive input by the user.
To accomplish this result it was only necessary to invent a township.
Well, if by that, they’re implicitly drawing a distinction with journalists... aka “gerbilists” they should beknight the guy who invented that term... then it’s a distinction without a difference. The Volokh Conspiracy » Texas Islamic Groups Argue That Internet Speech Should Be Less Protected Than Print, Radio, or Television Speech:
Prosecutors and judges will have no difficulty in differentiating between cases, however inventive are those determined to break a democratically enacted law.
This discovery led to the invention of the pendulum and various timepieces such as the Grandfather clock, but at the time Galileo could not explain it.
He reinvented the genre of sports writing. Times, Sunday Times
No one could really argue with the choice of lawrencium for element 103, after the man who had invented the machine for element synthesis.
He wanted to work on the vegetation inventory for a pitcher plant bog he had going.
Had Stark known from the beginning that the story of the upstate boyhood was all an invention?
Even with its uneven moments, it is a skilfully written book that never stops inventing.
We also inventory turntables, gears, mainsprings, belts, needles and many many other hard to find components.
A corporation, or an industry, is sustainable only when it continually reinvents and recapitalizes itself to meet changing business requirements.
Missy's fans and friends have been dropping their jaws at her newest invention: her retooled curvy figure.
Magos Herrera has evolved into a global-centric musician, capable of expressing herself in a multiplicity of languages, and vocal settings; from straight-ahead, ballads, scats, and the various dimensions and invention of Afro-Latin music. HW Pick: Magos Herrera, Luna Menguante Barluna «
France play with more flair and inventiveness, whereas England are a more disciplined side.
This invention made a major contribution to road safety.
He was of a mild and cheerful temper, generous to the extent of his means, and of an inventive genius; and his conduct after marriage was irreproachable.
Daminus mendacii a seipso deceptus, alios decipere cupit, adversarius humani generis, Inventor mortis, superbiae institutor, radix malitiae, scelerum caput, princeps omnium vitiorum, fuit inde in Dei contumeliam, hominum perniciem: de horum conatibus et operationibus lege Epiphanium. Anatomy of Melancholy
I wouldn't mind death, so I could escape my tormentors here, but I fear the painful ways of dying the men here invent.
A pig-farmer in Lethbridge has invented a pill, derived from pigfeed, that is fantastically effective in fighting clinical depression without nasty side-effects. Boing Boing: December 16, 2001 - December 22, 2001 Archives
On the other hand if the essential feature of the moving pictures is the combination of various views into one connected impression, we must look back to the days of the phenakistoscope which had scientific interest only; it is more than eighty years since it was invented. The Photoplay A Psychological Study
In the second place, he invented fishnets, a cruel device whereby innocent fish leap weeping to your frying pans.
Fresh ideas, inventive combinations and a lively ambience inform this modern Scottish restaurant famed for giving traditional dishes a vibrant international infusion.
I thought so -- extemporaneous invention was, after all, my mtier too. THE CALLIGRAPHER
It was at this time that he divided the scale into 43 microtones - there are 12 semitone intervals in a traditional chromatic scale - and began inventing instruments that could play his new microtonal music.
( "Tonight I'm going to put it to the supreme test!" says an inventor in "Aztec Mummy," and a silhouetted Joel replies, "The Cosmo sex quiz?") 'Cinematic Titanic' re-creates 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' in Washington
So, the suit invents a derivative to hedge the volatility-say a "swaption," which is an option on the interest rate swap. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.
Materialization of both wish and phantasy is monstrous to Victor, because his egoic coherence depends on denying the death-drive that he sublimes as life — especially the life of science, invention, and creativity. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
Didn't he like invent that ish?
The invention also relates to a cosmetic care or make-up process for a keratinous material.
The cost to a firm of maintaining inventory has two major components: carrying costs and ordering costs.
Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories. Tintin & Co.
It''s the biggest thing to happen in The Land Cod Forgot since the invention of the pogey cheque - Newfoundland''s native son Brad Gushue will represent Canada in curling at the 2006 Olympics in Turin," he wrote. Archive 2006-03-01
As Valentine's Day approaches each year he stoutly proclaims his disdain for this "faux holiday, this commercial invention by some ad man or company created for the sake of making a few bucks, selling silly, heart-shaped cards, bouquets and chocolates. Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte
This technique recalls medieval recipes antedating the invention of the pudding cloth.
However invented, there is something called Singaporean, and it is real. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with. Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.
Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
What it's like: self-satisfaction made into music - a trip-hop-tinged reinvention that could soundtrack an advert for a horrible men's fragrance. Times, Sunday Times
The atmosphere is decidedly creepy as the increasingly inventive deaths take place against a backdrop of innocent carols, glittering tinsel and good cheer. The Sun
The “right to privacy” meme, of course, is a strawman – by attaching some invented notion of “privacy” to the surgical process of electively vacuuming out a developing human life in pieces from the womb, the left thinks they make abortion a “right” – wholly and completely ridiculous. Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America
Some of the things in the shop were not listed in the inventory.
We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.
But the rags, the refuse - these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.
The next agent of this class, isoproterenol, did not appear until 1949 and the self-contained metered-dose inhaler to deliver it was invented in 1956.
Leonardo's inventions - a parachute, hang-glider, tank, underwater diving suit and robot - are built and put to the test for the first time, 500 years after he designed them.
The refusal of judges to give any interviews, under cover of antiquated ‘rules’ which a long forgotten lord chancellor had invented, compounded the sense that they were all, or almost all, malevolent recluses.
He set up a stall with a stove and demonstrated how to cook his invention.
It is uninventive, unresponsive, unintelligent, uninformed, and unmotivated to succeed.
The emir's reinvented country is far from perfect. Times, Sunday Times
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin. Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'
In the Great Depression, hobos who roamed transiently across North America invented pictographic graffiti languages which were cryptic to the police but well understood in their community.
They create a musical universe dominated by multiple percussion and underpinned by Mazinho Lima s tirelessly inventive bass guitar.
[0002] The basis for this invention is an event, referring to FIG. 1, occurring on May 2, 2004, in which the inventor ( 'he') personally experienced a full-body teleportation while walking to the bus stop ... Archive 2006-05-14
It knew none of the games that the magpie invented save one, and that was a kind of aerial “peep-bo” to which the brainier bird lured it by means of a prize. My Tropic Isle
Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most trans formative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling
And they claim they could invent a machine to see into our thoughts within ten years. The Sun
Thus, the label vanity -- which I did not invent, BTW. Philosophy at Ten Paces!
I have an inventory of various objets d'art, which I use to personalize rented homes, rented furniture, rented lives. WHERE THE HEART IS
For liability reasons, Tucker suggests that tower owners employ a third party to inventory the site to show areas of danger concerning the site hazards.
When we do invent something, production is offshored and the UK operation consists of 50 highly paid designers and a few bean counters and marketing men.
There remain some problems in the bank's inventory assets management.
It's probably the single most significant invention of the industrial age, in terms of its effect on our everyday lives.
Random Dungeon rewards will be placed in each player's inventory automatically upon completion of the dungeon (final boss killed).
His imaginative brilliance is most apparent in his inventive and often witty designs for furniture and metalwork.
They harness the energy and urgency of electronic music while largely doing away with emotion and invention. Times, Sunday Times
But then perhaps modern marriage is old-fashioned already and needs reinventing. Times, Sunday Times
Of these, only one had the invention perfected to the extent of using a dynamotor. Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Givin
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments
The results of the inventory revealed that the resources of the first two species are large, while the resources of asarabacca and common bearberry are a little low and it might be necessary to put these species under total conservation.
One of the critical innovations is the invention of tweezers for molecular manipulation - the very tool that Primo Levi desired.
He is said to have invented the sport of celebrity-watching.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
Constant self-examination allows them to shed old baggage and reinvent themselves.
But couvade, as I attempt to untangle its relation to colonialism in this essay, is a strategy re-invented for the purposes of reconciliation in narratives of Manichean allegory.
In fact it will be more of a wish list than an inventory of pledges. Times, Sunday Times
The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history â€ â€œXanadu.â€ People are calling a hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980â€™s Olivia Newton-John film, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldnâ€™t, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Whoopi Roller Skates ‘Xanadu’
He walked out as matter-of-coursely as if he had dropped in to ask the meaning of "circumflex," or who invented smallpox, or the name of Adam's house-cat, or how long it would take her to do a graduation essay for his daughter -- or any such little things that librarians are prepared for most days. The Rose-Garden Husband
The economic shocks in late 2000 caused an unexpectedly sharp drop in demand, and inventory began to build up.
The present invention relates to a method of diagnosing the risk of thermolabile phenotype diseases.
The little man did not know, that time was wanted for imagination to make the roadway or riverway of a true story, unless we press to invent; his mind had been too busy on the way for him to clothe in speech his impressions of the passage of incidents at the call for them. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Inventor Jose Hernandez-Rebollar has invented an electronic glove that transforms American Sign Language hand-gestures into readable or hearable text, to help deaf people communicate more easily with hearing folks. Boing Boing
The film allows the director ample space for his visual imagination to freewheel with dazzling spontaneity and inventiveness.
Having become expert on depositing metal solutions onto plastic backing, he invented recording tape.
With that basis, we propose a centralized inventory decision-making mechanism based on risk pooling.
To add variety, new forms of coercion, like gheraos, were invented.
It is begging for reinvention for a new era. The Sun
But linear perspective itself is probably a renaissance not an antique invention, and Durer's approach to ancient architecture is remarkably free and unlearned.
The far-fetched story is propelled by its endlessly inventive energy and visual verve. Times, Sunday Times
But even the cutesy spelling of the store's name couldn't keep it afloat; the space has now reinvented itself as Spirit Halloween superstore. Harmon Leon: Do All Closed Businesses in SF Resurrect as Halloween Superstores?
Trugo was invented by staff at the Newport Workshops in the 1920's.
We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mall.
The system collects a wide variety of quarterly data from different systems pertaining to reparable items such as failures, lead times, base and depot repair times, and excess inventory.
Shared inventory model structure, which contains the input and output sample.
Initially we have to reduce our inventory ( stock ) and cut jobs and production. The Sun
These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate's most virulent and inventive poisons.
But the Southern knights constantly wore these lateral dragon's wings; and if I can find their special name, it may perhaps be substituted with advantage for 'stipule'; but I have not wit enough by me just now to invent a term. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
Heat-jaded Sahibs and Memsahibs came here to escape the coast's hottest months, they invented snooker at the pukka Ooty Club and came to gossip at Charing Cross - locations were named by the British.
Optimists argue that the U.S. will keep its innovation lead because it has invented new products before.
The doctors have patented their invention and say it could soon be available to all air passengers.
Alfred persevered, first inventing the blasting cap and then discovering that a silicaceous earth, kieselguhr, would stabilize nitroglycerin, thus making dynamite. Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
Buddy draws the short straw again, taking the invention on its maiden voyage in a quarry. Times, Sunday Times
The plunge in manufacturing is in part the result of a huge global inventory adjustment.
The Greeks invented the science of geometry with practical applications in architecture in mind.
The car radiator is a technology that has been around almost since automobiles were first invented.
The notion that the 2005 riots were primarily or even tri - or quad-marily anti-Semitic is purely invented. Matthew Yglesias » France Hearts Jews
Charles Kettering invents the electric starter rendering the hand crank on petrol cars obsolete.
The term horsepower was coined by James Watt (1736-1819), the Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer renowned for his improvements of the steam engine. Horsepower hour
The winners had shown a great ability to be creative and inventive with their display table.
Ktesibios's invention is first cousin to that all - American 20 th - century fixture, the flush toilet.
He was mostly happy without an excessive amount of work, and when it was not there he did not invent it.
The invention of penicillin effectively wiped out the staph infection problem in hospitals, but after the bacteria developed resistance to it, methicillin became the standard treatment in 1960.
To explain away inconvenient facts, they simply invent another twist. Times, Sunday Times
As a matter of fact, my brother painted very few things, at any stage of his career, as mere representations of reality, unimbued by some inventive or ideal meaning: in the rare instances when he did so, he naturally felt an indolent comfort, and made no scruple of putting the feeling into words — highly suitable for being taken _cum grano salis_. Old Familiar Faces
‘It's an 18 th-century anachronism invented by guys who didn't believe the unwashed rabble were smart enough to elect a leader,’ he says.
With the help of scanning technology and just-in-time inventory systems, businesses changed their practices.
Desserts are inventive, too - we loved the refreshing piña colada with pineapple jelly. The Sun
A Dutch inventor proposes replacing the traditional dental drill with a ‘plasma needle’, a device that despite being cold and painless to the touch will kill dead cells and cauterise the surroundings. Plasma Dentistry | Blog | Futurismic
And they come about through inheritance, acquisition or invention.
Review: Light-hearted (skillfully borderline silly) and inventive story with strong characters and good back story about Kaz's bleb paranoia since the death of his parents at the "hands" of a bleb (a set of steak knives attached to a coat rack). REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #21 edited by Gardner Dozois
Procane will have to invent a convincing reason for crossing the Atlantic -- the first stage of his journey to reach us. COVER STORY
The late 19th and early 20th century saw a spate of inventions which were to transform the lives of ordinary citizens of this country in ways hitherto undreamed of.
Gap Inc., which says inventory is about the same as it was a year ago, recently installed software programs that help it plan markdowns.
Was language invented extempore, or gradually developed from grunts and screeches?
Thanks to this project NetBeans can provide basic support for lots of different languages - and if you invent your own language make sure to look at Schliemann to get some nice support in the IDE.
French artist and inventor of the daguerreotype process for obtaining positive photographic prints.
Happily, we don't have to invent this mythical band as the Sadies fit the bill pretty neatly.
I expressly declare here and now that this rumor was simply the invention of evil-minded relations.
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain
In the 15th century, Brunelleschi invented a screen with central apparatus in order to obtain exact perspective - the monocular vision of the camera obscura.
That being said, the oral tradition within which troubadour song was devised and transmitted probably encouraged constant reinvention, and it is hard to believe that either melodies or accompaniments were immutably fixed.
The story begins with the Wright brothers, ‘inventors’ of flight, who successfully threw a series of intricately connected two-by-fours off a ledge high enough so that they did not land for a full 12 seconds.
If there are good internal literary reasons why the author of Mark might have invented this story as the conclusion of his work, then the community that was the presumptive audience for the gospel simply may not have perceived the embarrassment that arose later, as other communities adopted and literalized the narrative invented in Mark. Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity
The _shadoof_, or water-hoist, is patiently worked as it has been for thousands of years; while the cylindrical hoist employed in Lower Egypt was invented and introduced in The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
At regular intervals along these walls occur little towers, for their defence, reminding one of beads strung on a rosary; the great watch-tower at the gate, with its projecting machicolation, forming the pendent cross, -- the whole serving to guard the town within from the dangers of war, even as the rosary protects the city of Mansoul from the attacks of Sin and Death -- though, sooth to say, since the invention of gunpowder and the Reformation, both the one and the other appear to have lost much of their former efficacy. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
Edison didn't invent the light bulb -- he invented one * type* of light bulb. the bulb had been already invented. indoor plumbing is over 2000 years old. electricity came along long before Ben Franklin and gang -- it just didn't get used much. and so on. perhaps the biggest mistake people make is to equate "invention" with "progress" or "improvement". A Priori (Jack Bog's Blog)
Many area used car dealers are having their inventory tested or offering to test before purchase.
Almost since the invention of the notebook computer, buyers have complained about its cost.
The most successful of Clarence Birdseye's inventions, aside from frozen food, was appropriately enough, an infra-red heating lamp for thawing it.
The envy is a constant, what changes are the socio-economic conditions - the most crucial of which was probably the invention of agriculture and storage of food. The Envy of the World, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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