invention
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Ask any historian—or child, for that matter—to name the “father of the telephone,” and most will say Alexander Graham Bell, who patented his revolutionary invention in 1876.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
But Hunt didn’t patent his invention at the time, in part because his daughter owned a corset-making business in Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Of course, having to rely on an invention rather than Mother Nature isn’t really what anyone wants.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026
Wilson believes that Snow Secure—the high-tech insulated polystyrene blanket that unfolds like an accordion, then drapes over a pile of snow—is just the invention.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026
This new vocabulary was crucial to explaining the status of the new knowledge, and yet it is a language that we have come to take so completely for granted that its invention has become invisible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing invention
The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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"Hitching a Ride"
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The Stone Age - Middle School and High School
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