He invented as well as limned his stories and, in the process, created a grand, rolling fiction of Americanness.
By the early 1920s basic circuits for sine-, squand-, and sawtooth-wave generators had been invented, as had amplifiers, filter circuits, and, most importantly, loudspeakers.
Textile makers, unperturbed by the fact that few accurate records of ancient tartan patterns existed, invented as many as they could.
Then everyone decided he was a Conceptual artist before the category was invented, as well as a progenitor of performance art, sound art, installation art and Happenings.
Reflector sights were invented as an improved gun-sight and since their invention they have been adapted to many types of weapons.
LONDON — The Olympics were invented as preparation for war.
The computers we all use were invented as bookkeeping machines.
Their stylized, mannered projections of self are as invented as any in a novel.
"These were invented as instruments to repackage, disseminate and hedge risks," Mr. Trichet said.
Orthographies were not invented as art forms, but, once invented, they could serve aesthetic functions.
It sometimes seems that car alarms were invented as part of a mass sleep-deprivation experiment.
