Collocations with invention

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independent invention
When these social and economic forces dictated, cultural innovations might be adopted through diffusion or (more rarely) independent invention.
invention of photography
The invention of photography could facilitate a power over the criminal individual that was unimaginable before.
invention of printing
Veltman (1991) points out that it was 80 years from the invention of printing before scientific text was printed systematically.
patented invention
Section 2 demonstrates that a 19th-century patented invention in mechanical engineering and numerous 20th-century patented inventions can be similarly reinvented by genetic programming.!
pure invention
Their tale is pure invention.
recent invention
And above all, we study something called 'material culture', seemingly untroubled by the knowledge that the division between culture and nature which it implies is a relatively recent invention.
technological invention
Science was to be fostered as leading to the improvement of man's lot on earth by facilitating technological invention.
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