Spelling bees are perceived by many to be a relatively modern invention.

Police are a very modern invention.

These aren’t a modern invention.

The mass consumption of single-use items has indeed become a matter of urgent environmental concern in recent years—particularly when those items are made out of plastic, a relatively modern invention.

Fast tempos are not a modern invention.

Comprised of three units, this patented invention allows users to feed the machine with pasta mix that later extrudes into sticks of pasta.

Once the company starts making a profit, you will need to identify profits derived directly from patent rights, or from products that incorporate a patented invention.

Making, constructing, using, or selling a patented invention without the patent holder's permission can constitute infringement.

He quit his first job after six months and started his own business marketing a first patented invention, an all-purpose bottle cap.

It was possible to run the machine without using the patented part, and the defendants willingly returned the patented invention when action was commenced.

After all, it seems to be a fairly recent invention.

Fake towns are a relatively recent invention in the overall history of maps, though.

He certainly can do no worse than his boss, whose most recent invention was an evil lasagne.

The recent invention of lightweight tracking devices has enabled researchers to study these birds in new ways, and the results are often astonishing.

This became a safety issue in the late 1960s when some drivers ignored their safety harnesses, which were then a recent invention.

Whether you consider the revolutionary invention a blessing or a curse, it's difficult to arrange your life so as to avoid its influence.

This was a revolutionary invention in the automotive industry, allowing wheels to react to irregularities of road surfaces independently, and enable the vehicle to maintain a strong road holding.

Many of his works discuss ethical and other aspects of revolutionary inventions and processes that were already anticipated in the first half of 20th century.

You're just learning to use the technological invention - the 6 oz paperback - that outdoes all others.

It provides access to current issues related to global economy and technological inventions to the students.

Some of its technological inventions (but not necessarily first nor uniquely) are writing, glass, the wheel and the use of irrigation.

In these days, world expositions were especially focused on trade, and were famous for the display of technological inventions and advancements.

A great deal of modern technological inventions operate at a scale where quantum effects are significant.