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It has already been stated, in the general definition, what we would be understood to mean by the term Invention, in its particular relation to Art; namely, any unpractised mode of presenting a subject, whether by the combination of forms already known, or by the union and modification of known but fragmentary parts into a new and consistent whole: in both cases tested by the two preceding characteristics.
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Invention is a cumulative process; a new invention is usually an incremental improvement on an existing one.
Becker-Posner on Drug Patents, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation.
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Invention is an artifice man employs to overcome the round about.
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Top Accidental inventions posted in Invention, Projects tagged 10 top inventions, innovation, Invention
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American Toy & Invention is selling a construction kit that's really a destruction kit.
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Posner writes, Invention is a cumulative process; a new invention is usually an incremental improvement on an existing one.
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"Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers 'Journey of Invention" is playing locally tomorrow night (on the other PBS station).
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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Invention is perhaps the most arduous effort of the mind; this branch of imagination hath been particularly ceded to us, and we have been time
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