Sentences with phrase «until invention»

Derelict local shops Once a flourishing retail scene, local village shops and independent stores were plentiful until the invention of supermarkets and malls.

The first people to use email saw it as an entirely beneficial thing, until the invention of spam.

He predicts that high - tech books won't be widespread until the invention of a mass - market 300 - dpi resolution screen technology (which would provide roughly the same clarity as print).

From 1965 to 1990, in - print personal ads kept up a steady pace until an invention came along that would change all of our lives forever — the internet.

Tarot cards were rare and expensive — a privilege of the upper classes — until the invention of mass printing in the mid-1400s.

Pressure cookers have not been used by our ancestors until their invention in the early 18th century by scientists to preserve food by canning for the French army!

Think about it, until the invention of electric light bulbs, people relied on the sun for the majority of their light.

This system was foolproof until the invention of the light bulb, and now the vast night sky dimly lit by stars and moonlight has been replaced by Netflix in bed.

Until the invention of the telescope, nobody really knew what the «Milky Way» was.

Until the invention of this puffy, marshmallowy sleep suit, babies (and parents) just had to struggle during the transition.

It was not until the invention of the microscope, followed by the pioneering scientific work of Louis Pasteur in the late 1860's, that yeast was identified as a living organism and the agent responsible for alcoholic fermentation and dough leavening.

Until the invention of printing, all three types of stories were told face - to - face.

Not exact matches

But among the litany of stand - out innovations are some novel and little - known inventions — devices, moreover, that set out to solve a problem that either no one had set out to solve before or that no one had been able to solve until now.

Typically, a patent application travels back and forth between the applicant and the patent examiner until both sides agree on which aspects of an invention the patent will cover, if any.

But actually making stuff — creating prototypes, holding your invention in your hand — has until recently been a privilege reserved to relatively few.

Consider the industrial revolution: It didn't remake the world economy until well after the technology that powered it was first developed, Avent writes — but once it did, it took a World War and the invention of welfare to return stability to the world.

Despite Swann's success, the idea didn't really take off in urban areas in America until the 1980s, when rapidly increasing real - estate prices began shutting many out of homeownership, according to Reinventing Real Estate: The Community Land Trust as A Social Invention in Affordable Housing, by James Meehan.

But unlike the artists of whom Wilde wrote — who see the world through the brushstrokes of other painters until, via their own brushstrokes, they compel the world to reproduce the types they have invented — Bloom wants to claim that Shakespeare's invention of human types came from himself and himself only, from a «preternatural ability,» without relying «on authority, or authorities.»

One may say that until the coming of Man it was natural selection that set the course of morphogenesis and cerebration, but that after Man it is the power of invention that begins to grasp the evolutionary reins.

But Jobs» adage that people didn't know what they needed until you tell them proved truer with this invention than with any single other creation of his, and 10 years later, the iPhone hasn't just transformed the world, it's transformed the way we take the world in.

Understanding, discovery, invention... From the first awakening of his reflective consciousness, Man has been possessed by the demon of discovery; but until a very recent epoch this profound need remained latent, diffused and unorganized in the human mass.

Until relatively recently (the invention of printing) The Bible was read and studied, usually out loud, for the moral lessons within it.

He can then start rationally arguing backwards from the invention and forward from the means at his disposal until a way is found from one to the other.

(This was judged to occur in mid-pregnancy, a position that did not become untenable until, again, after the 1830s, when the invention of the stethoscope first made possible the detection of the early fetal heartbeat.)

The inventor of Muzak once claimed that the great success of his invention lay in the simple fact that one never notices it until it is turned off.

After Borden received a patent on his invention he starting producing condensed milk, but it wasn't until it became standard issue for the troops during the Civil War that it really gained popularity.

Look at the way rumours insinuate themselves through the national press, winding from paper to paper to website to tweet, until it emerges that the speculation was simply the invention of a bored 15 - year - old.

Baby gates are one of those inventions that you didn't know you couldn't live without until you used one.

It was not until Kang became a AAAS - Lemelson Invention Ambassador this past spring, however, joining an elite group of inventors chosen to communicate the value of innovation to society, that he took on another major responsibility — to help make sure that government supports innovation.

Until very recently, most of these institutes and establishments have not had clear policies and guidelines on the sharing of benefits of such inventions.

«It was not until the fourteenth century that an hour of uniform length became customary due to the invention of mechanical clocks,» Beard writes with several coauthors in a recent review of the leap - second debate.

According to Anthony, «It was the carpentry that probably delayed the invention until 3500 B.C. or so, because it was only after about 4000 B.C. that cast copper chisels and gouges became common in the Near East.»

It wasn't until nearly seven decades after the invention of the telescope that its true nature was revealed.

And beyond that, of course, there are the technologies and inventions that are unknown and seem impossible — until we realize they're possible.

It is of utmost importance that you keep your invention idea confidential until you receive patent pending status!

DeLuca recommends that girls — and boys — chase their science and invention ideas until they succeed or fail.

Leyden jars or more powerful devices employing flat glass plates alternating with foil conductors were used exclusively up until about 1900, when the invention of wireless (radio) created a demand for standard capacitors, and the steady move to higher frequencies required capacitors with lower inductance.

It was not until the late nineteenth century that white bread, biscuits, and cakes made from white flour and sugars became mainstays in the diets of industrialized nations, and these products were only made possible with the invention of high - speed milling machines.28 Dr. Price observed the unmistakable consequences of these dietary changes during his travels and documented their corresponding health effects.

It took something like 250 years for the automobile to become entrenched as something truly useful and an obvious improvement, and ~ 200 years past then invention of the internal combustion engine and it wasn't until the modernization of assembly that the automobile was actually able to gain that traction due to the cost being driven down so that they were affordable enough for people other than the super rich to purchase them.

You start out in a room full of Dr. Emmett Brown's inventions where you break and build bricks until you unlock the hoverboard then build a large speaker system.

Established in 1889, the standard format of 35 mm film with an image aspect ratio of 1.33:1 was not seriously challenged until Twentieth Century Fox's invention of CinemaScope (initially 2.55:1, later 2.35:1) in the early 1950s.

Melinda tells the therapist the story of how she supported Robert through college and 18 years of pitching his invention until Robert bled her dry.

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In a supreme piece of marketing invention, Land Rover is calling the process «reductionism», simplifying the interior by «hiding» many features until they are needed, at which point the relevant capacitive touch - sensitive buttons are lit from behind.

The idea of pneumatic tube transport (or capsule pipeline) was invented in 1806 by Phineas Balk, but was only seen as a spectacular invention until the actual capsule was invented in 1836.

The invention of movable type was the biggest thing that had happened to the publishing industry for decades until eBooks came along.

Money market funds, a new invention at the time, were the optimal place to be until about 1982, when the cycle shifted, and the longest zero coupon bonds were the new best place to be.

I probably should have waited until after the iPad was revealed to post about Apple's new invention.

Until this card's invention, you had to be a commercial driver to use a card at ARCO without fees.

In fact, it wasn't until the 1940s — and the invention of cat litter — that «indoors only» for cats was even a concept.