Invention

Examples

• Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention? Plato. The Republic.
• Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was not, however, till the invention of telegraphs that anything approaching to the means of holding regular communication by signals was attained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then it was that I worked out my first invention, and necessity was certainly the mother of it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He filed an application for a patent and entered into a conspiracy to 'swear back' of the date of my invention, so as to deprive me of it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Before the invention of the art of printing, a scholar and a beggar seem to have been terms very nearly synonymous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This was the invention of Joseph Hurd, of Mass. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A nation bent upon a policy of social invention would make its tools an incident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Wrights’ system of balance, the great original feature of their invention, is attained by what is called the warping of the wings. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He wrote an essay on his invention, and circulated it among his friends and teachers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The practical use of the invention when turned to the heavenly bodies served to confirm the truth of the discovery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And furthermore, that in practically every case the actual patented invention followed from one to a dozen or more gradually developing forms of the same idea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From that time until July, 1878, his time and attention day and night were almost completely absorbed by the excitement caused by the invention and exhibition of the machine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One of the most important of the early inventions in the textile art was the _cotton gin_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Some of Edison's most remarkable inventions are revealed in a number of interesting patents relating to the duplication of phonograph records. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All these desirable results have been accomplished whenever the new inventions of importance have been used. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As to the effect of modern inventions on wearing apparel, it is not apparent that they were necessary to supply the wardrobes of the rich. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Discovery, research, inquiry in new lines, inventions, finally came to be either the social fashion, or in some degree tolerable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Indeed, without this tireless minutiae, and methodical, searching spirit, it would have been practically impossible to have produced many of the most important of these inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Inventions and discoveries in the field of surgery relate not only to instrumentalities but processes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• We have seen, in treating of safes and locks, how burglars keep pace with the latest inventions to protect property by the use of dynamite and nitro-glycerine explosions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The goings on of Aspasia were of course a fruitful vineyard for the inventions of the street. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The onward flow of inventions may be interrupted, if not materially stayed, by the cessation of some of the causes and incentives which now give them life. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Space permits the submission of but a few observations and suggestions on these points:---- _Necessity_ is still the mother of inventions, but not of all of them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the coming of the machine inventions and the new industrial and social ideas of the eighteenth century came an almost sudden new appreciation of the value of time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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