Sentence examples for practical invention from inspiring English sources

Independent production may free filmmakers' hands; in posing challenges regarding the material side of production, it may also spark practical invention that familiar methods might not.

According to Plutarch (c. 46 119 ce), Archimedes had so low an opinion of the kind of practical invention at which he excelled and to which he owed his contemporary fame that he left no written work on such subjects.

Nevertheless, despite the Oruktor serving more as a publicity stunt than a practical invention, it served its symbolic purpose at the time as evidence that Evans's ideas of steam carriages were not an impossible dream.

I'm looking for some more practical inventions this year.

Gunter's practical inventions included Gunter's chain.

In principle, while practical inventions can be patented, scientific findings can't be.

Beyond practical inventions and innovations, Indigenous peoples continue to hold critical knowledge on how to live sustainably in balance with our planet and with one another.

(However, it should be recognised that some prizes this year, for integrated circuits, semiconductor lasers and electrically conductive plastics, are for more than usually practical inventions).In this section The wireless gamble Conservatives and liberty Italy's unfinished business Musharraf fails the test Shall all have prizes?

Benjamin Franklin is well known for such practical inventions as bifocals and the lightning rod.

A maintenance engineer for a shoe company, he sometimes gets ideas for practical inventions, but he represses them.

We are focused on those kinds of innovations that lead to practical, important inventions that at the end of the line improve the lives of the poorest people on Earth".