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Invention in sentence

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People confuse, in my view, the order of the invention of the tools with the order in which they should use them for teaching.
So a new invention had to basically fit advances from the past.
But I thought, you know, sometimes it's just not the right time for an invention; maybe it's time to give this one another shot.
When I was growing up, I was exposed to making and crafts and materials and invention on a small scale.
It's 1876, it's in Boston, and this is Alexander Graham Bell who was working with Thomas Watson on the invention of the telephone.
Alan: It's a remarkable invention, isn't it?
It saw that invention could actually benefit from emergencies.
The button and the buttonhole is such a great invention.
In fact, he would always get upset when people referred to the bombsight as his invention, because in his eyes, only God could invent things.
He cofounded a company called Deaftronics, which now manufactures the Solar Ear, which is a hearing aid powered by his invention.
It's really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it.
So for example, the invention of language was a tiny step in that direction.
In addition to that, after the baby's born, our other unique invention as mammals is that we nourish our offspring after they're born.
His invention gave birth to a new field of science, electrochemistry, and new technologies such as electroplating.
Perhaps overlooked, Volta's invention of the battery for the first time also demonstrated the utility of a professor.
And you persuade people to go to these great feats of invention, but at a personal level, in a way I can't imagine doing your job.
JS: Now, there's now a real fancy invention, it's the one where you wave your hand and it kicks it out.
Early digital culture, and indeed, digital culture to this day, had a sense of, I would say, lefty, socialist mission about it, that unlike other things that have been done, like the invention of books, everything on the internet must be purely public, must be available for free, because if even one person cannot afford it, then that would create this terrible inequity.
I have been able, through careful invention, to transmit, with the mere flick of a switch, electricity across the ether.
But then Johannes Gutenberg came along with his great invention, and, over time, the society opened up.
So this didn't require any invention.
And I'm going to share my music with you, but I hope that I'm going to do so in a way that tells a story, tells a story about how I used boredom as a catalyst for creativity and invention, and how boredom actually forced me to change the fundamental question that I was asking in my discipline, and how boredom also, in a sense, pushed me towards taking on roles beyond the sort of most traditional, narrow definition of a composer.
In the 20th century, the invention of traditional credit transformed our consumer system, and in many ways controlled who had access to what.
It's said to be the most successful ever invention of a word by a known individual.
Then, women's worst invention was the plow.
That is my invention.
So after that, what I did, usually if anyone got a patent or an invention, immediately you want to make, convert into this.
And that moment of inspiration, that key invention moment, was when I was sitting in front of my design notebook and I started thinking about somebody grabbing a lever, and if they grab near the end of the lever, they can get an effectively long lever and produce a lot of torque as they push back and forth, and effectively get a low gear.
In fact, it's a new invention of the wheel.
So 5,000 years after the invention of the wheel, we have a new wheel.
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