11 sentences with 'invention'

Example sentences and phrases with the word invention and other words derived from it.

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« Prehistory is the time that goes from the appearance of human beings to the invention of writing. »

invention: Prehistory is the time that goes from the appearance of human beings to the invention of writing.
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« In banking: the invention of cheques and forms of commercial insurance for merchants. »
« By 1500, some fifty years after its invention, the printing press had largely replaced the scribal tradition of book production. »
« Shortly after his death, other physicians used a new invention, the microscope, to detect the capillaries that connect arteries to other tissues. »
« Only with the invention of the typewriter in the late 19th century and the Internet in the late 20th century would changes comparable to the spread of information occur. »
« Thus, for practical reasons, the subject of 'history' as a field of study begins with the invention of writing, something that began with the first civilisation itself, that of the Fertile Crescent. »
« The invention of the printing press was also a huge leap forward in the long-term vision of human technology as a whole, as the scribal tradition had been in place since the creation of writing itself. »
« For example, agriculture developed independently in China by 5000 BC, and of course agriculture in the Americas (starting in western South America) had nothing to do with its earlier invention in the Fertile Crescent. »
« One of Aristotle's main areas of interest was the analysis of real-life polis politics; his conclusion was that humans are 'political animals' and that it was possible to improve politics through human understanding and invention, not just contemplation. »
« The key was the invention of the caravel, a new type of ship capable of sailing both into the wind and against side winds; as long as the wind was not blowing in the opposite direction to that in which you wanted to travel, it was possible to keep moving in the right direction. »
« One compelling theory about the period between the invention of agriculture and the rise of the great cities (again, between about 8,000 and 4,000 BC) is that a hybrid agricultural-gathering lifestyle seems to have been very common in the great wetlands along the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris. »

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