"It is an object of this invention to accommodate the desires of people to have a dual-function item, by providing a ranch wagon which can be converted for use to a picnic table with benches and then back to a ranch wagon configuration for lawn decoration, all with little or no effort".
In Music in Britain, one of the few books to deal with Stanford's music in detail, Nicholas Temperley writes that it is due to Stanford that settings of the Anglican church services regained their "full place beside the anthem as a worthy object of artistic invention".
The object of such inventions is to bind together facts which without them are loose and detached... even if they themselves somewhat misstate the matter".
The latter motivation is amplified when Turing names the machine Christopher, after an adolescent object of affection — an invention of the movie that gives it a distracting and somewhat creepy resonance with "Frankenstein".
Early in Nicholas Christopher's new novel, "Franklin Flyer," a legendary inventor explains that, contrary to popular belief, the purpose of invention is not the creation of an object that has never before existed.
"Light and colours, heat and cold, extension and figures — in a word, the things we see and feel — what are they but so many sensations, notions, ideas?" Indeed, he concluded, the objects of the world are likely just inventions of the mind, put in there by God.
A broad range of technologies reached a tipping point, from science projects or objects of convenience for the rich, to inventions that will transform humanity.
Desire is always a kind of invention.
Only his powers of invention were real.
