Sentence examples for leading inventions from inspiring English sources

The Pill is widely held to be one of the leading inventions of the 20th century, giving women power over their bodies.

The celebrated inventions of the past half century, like the personal computer and the Internet, Gordon argues, have increased productivity and transformed people's lives far less than did the leading inventions of the half century between 1870 and 1920, like household electricity, indoor plumbing, and the automobile.

The authors found that KMC had a positive effect on innovation performance because they enable the firms to change their knowledge base combinations and integrate new and existing knowledge domains leading to invention outcomes of greater value.

The OV is a space, which strongly attracts innovation, often leading to multiple inventions emerging independently at the same time.

Electricity is a good thing, he said, regardless of its leading to the invention of the electric chair.

They concluded that radio waves could best be used to determine the position of enemy aircraft instead, leading to the invention of radar.Technology Quarterly Sweeping below deck A good kind of gas-guzzling Encouraging hydrophobia You, robot?

In antiquity Greece was the beneficiary of geography, the antechamber of the Near East — the place where the heartless systems of Egypt and Mesopotamia could be softened and humanized, leading to the invention of the West, so to speak.

This issue of control, and of the price paid for following the sometimes skewed road leading toward self-invention, is among the themes now being grappled with by Mary Harron, in her first feature film, "I Shot Andy Warhol," which is currently on location in New York with the actress Lili Taylor as the shootist.

Industry and invention leading to a 'triumph' of science over nature; the presumption of military dominance on behalf of what we perceive as the 'right' values; the newfound power to bring about annihilation of life; and the moral and ethical conundrums that the possession of such an instrument of destruction force upon us".

A comprehensive treatment of both resonator ends loaded with triangular and rectangular shapes is described, leading to the invention of a microstrip slow-wave open-loop resonator.

At present, however, the cross-pollinations between early modern humanism and scholasticism are scarcely better understood than the developments leading to the invention of numerical probability.