So it seems that a biography written shortly after his death included several invented stories about his early life.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

Others say Edward O'Reilly invented the character in stories he wrote for The Century Magazine in the early nineteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

He and another researcher at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia,Irving Millman, invented the vaccine in nineteen sixty-nine.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

During his lifetime, he invented hundreds of devices that were used in telephones, shortwave radio broadcasts, and similar technology.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

When I visited Madame Vulpes, she let me speak to the spirit of the man who invented the microscope.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Levi Strauss partnered with a clothing maker named Jacob Davis, who had invented a process for making rivets for jeans.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

At the age of thirty-seven, Sarah invented a mixture that helped her hair and made curly hair straight.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Helen Murray Free invented self-testing equipment that lets diabetics measure their own blood levels of glucose at home.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

Bill invented the method of using a hot branding iron to permanently put the mark of a ranch on a cow's skin.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

They continued to use the old methods of attack that had worked before the minie ball was invented.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

He also invented the Skyhook, an air rescue system that involved an airplane and a large helium balloon.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

He is remembered as the man who saved the Union and re-invented it at the same time.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Alexander Graham Bell believed one day machines would be invented to help deaf people hear and speak.

VOA: special.2010.05.14