Sony engineers invented Betamax, only to see the cheaper VHS become the standard for videocassette recorders.
John Tyndall, an English experimenter, demonstrated one before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Invented in a pub in the 1970s, toe wrestling plays out very much like a traditional arm-wrestling match.
The substance he abused: Bakelite, a phenolic resin invented in 1909 and often used as an electrical insulator.
He claimed that jazz was invented by white musicians and that black musicians would never play as well.
How many people do you see carrying around digital cameras since the cameraphone was invented?
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Not only does Twitter use some of the most advanced web technology, they invented it.
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"It demonstrates that their Nazi lie was completely invented and had no justification, " he said.
Taxol had been invented at taxpayer expense, and Hauser controlled the leading extraction technology.
Since it hadn't invented the drug, Bristol couldn't get a 20-year patent -- a legal monopoly.
He didn't just put his name on the Arnold Palmer iced-tea-and-lemonade drink he invented it.
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Adams invented Viramune, an AIDS drug, while working at Boehringer Ingleheim , the German pharmaceutical firm.
These are the cats that practically invented the fighting game we all know and love.
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He designed the games and invented the franchises that caused people to buy the consoles.
The record business, someone once observed, was invented to make the movie industry look good.
Realizing that there was no convenient alternative for doing churrasco cooking at home, he invented one.
But at the dawn of the 20th century, this innovation had yet to be invented.
The French, having invented and mastered the process are rightly territorial about the whole business.
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He invented the radio direction finder, autopilot and the first fully automatic aircraft landing system.
Eventually lured by the promise, Mr. Wollschlager said, he invented some claims of abuse.
He invented a language, traditions and an entire culture that nearly everyone he met believed true.
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Macroeconomics, which Keynes invented, is redundant in an economy that does not use credit.
Dr Sheridon has invented an apparatus that can produce several litres of plastic beads a day.
Rip-stop nylon needed to be invented before I could fly a powered-parachute ultralight aircraft.
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Those bags may someday feel much lighter thanks to a scientist who's invented a new backpack.
Financial firms invented and sold complicated financial products to escape scrutiny and conceal enormous risks.
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It was as if Kozmo had invented and patented the idea of delivering stuff.
And the iPhone is a great example, of something that was invented, brand new in 2007.
New Jersey-based Terracycle has invented a scale for good model that is itself scalable.
Instrument makers of the time also invented a trumpet with a sliding, telescoping tube extension.
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