Meanings of original invention in English

The legends on the tickets gave no sort of original invention.

They thus almost wholly missed the period of original invention.

Such men were afraid to supplement tradition with original invention.

It was no new truth, no original invention, but merely a simpler combination of old ideas.

The highest praise of genius is original invention.

His claim to original invention has been disputed.

It is an ingenious ploy, comparable in its effectiveness and simplicity to Alexander Graham Bell's original invention.

A good example is the history of Thomas Edison's phonograph, the most original invention of the greatest inventor of modern times.

He will find in all the epics no trace of original invention, but always a studied and conscientious following of authority.

It is quite common to misapprehend the nature and extent of an improvement without a thorough knowledge of an original invention.

Successive improvements made in the Montgolfiers' original invention permitted bold physicists ere long to risk themselves in a vessel attached to the air-machine.

It is true, he soon lost all his money in a law-suit which had to do with the original invention of the press.

Some of the ideas, like the patent of Alfred Silvester, a lecturer at the Polytechnic, were designed as improvements to the original invention.

Apart from all these and by itself stands a princely fisher whose bill is no modification, but an original invention and a marvellous one.

The new Walter Press is not, like Applegath and Cowper's, and Hoe's, the improvement of an existing arrangement, but an almost entirely original invention.

The Hindu theatre affords examples of the drama of domestic, as well as of heroic life; of original invention as well as of legendary tradition.