Her award-winning 1974 novel The Dispossessed, a book in the Hainish Cycle, tells of the invention of the ansible.

It is also notable for its description of the invention of the new physics that is the basis for the fictional ansible, an instantaneous communications device that plays a critical role in Le Guin's Hainish Cycle.

[...] And I spoke and wrote these things not by the invention of my heart or that of any other person, but as by the secret mysteries of God I heard and received them in the heavenly places.

In his invention of the Periodic Table of the Elements, Mendeleev had interchanged the orders of a few pairs of elements in order to put them in more appropriate places in this table of the elements.

According to Strauss the beginning of philosophy involved the " discovery or invention of nature " and the " pre-philosophical equivalent of nature " was supplied by " such notions as ' custom ' or ' ways, which appear to be really universal in all times and places.

The invention of the dish is also attributed to places ranging from Central America to the Polynesian islands in the South Pacific.

There are many claims to the invention of the differential gear but it is possible that it was known, at least in some places, in ancient times.

This invention has given wakeskaters the opportunity to ride in places never imagined possible before, making wakeskating more accessible than ever before.

MIT Sloan places great emphasis on innovation and invention, and many of the world's most famous management and finance theories — including the Black – Scholes model, the binomial options pricing model, the Modigliani – Miller theorem, the neoclassical growth model, the random walk hypothesis, Theory X and Theory Y, and the field of System Dynamics — were developed at the school.

There are 16 ° errors in the location of many of the places, whereas modern maps seldom have more than 1 °, because longitude was very difficult to ascertain before the invention of accurate clocks.

Prior to the invention and adoption of mechanized mowers, ( and today in places where use of a mower is impractical or uneconomical ), grass and grain crops were cut by hand using scythes or sickles.

One example of this is Eddison's ad hoc names for people and places versus Tolkien's invention of entire languages.

Crygor, however, places it in his new invention, the Gravitator, which spits out dozens of buttonless objects similar in form factor to a Game Boy Advance.

Noteworthy are topoi, places ( common and special topics ) from which an argument can be made ; three offices of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style ; three proofs of rhetoric: ethos ( based on the speaker ’ s or writer ’ s character ), logos ( based on inductive or deductive reasoning ); and pathos ( relies on an audience ’ s sensibility to a particular subject ); three genres of rhetoric: forensic ( also known as judicial and concerned with determining truth or falsity of events that took place in the past ), deliberative ( also known as political and concerned with determining whether or not action should or should not be taken in the future ), and epideictic ( also known as ceremonial and concerned with praise and blame, values / ethics / virtue, and skill in the present ).

CAutoD can be applied not just to tuning a predefined control scheme, but also to controller structure optimisation, system identification and invention of novel control systems, based purely upon a performance requirement, independent of any specific control scheme.

Wells's novel revolves around an ( unspecified ) invention that accelerates the process of radioactive decay, producing bombs that explode with no more than the force of ordinary high explosive — but which " continue to explode " for days on end.

Alternatively the guan dao is also known as " Chun Qiu Da Dao " or ' Spring Autumn Great Knife ', again probably related to Guan Yu's loyal image depicted in the Ming dynasty novel ' Romance of the Three Kingdoms ', but possibly a Ming author invention.

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process.

The implication-rather counter intuitively-is that a legal invention is not inherently novel.

" Anthony Boucher praised the novel, saying " Matheson has added a new variant on the Last Man theme ... and has given striking vigor to his invention by a forceful style of storytelling which derives from the best hard-boiled crime novels ".

Conversely, the remarkably accurate calculation of the earth's circumference by Eratosthenes, and the invention of a steam engine by Heron, both ascribed in chapter 60 to the priest Menes, historically occurred in Alexandrian Egypt, centuries after the period of the novel.

* K-PAX — A utopian planet in the novel and film of the same name, which is quite possibly the delusional invention of a madman who claims to be from the planet.

Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself.

The paper-and-pin Easter Lily of the IRA was the traditional commemorative badge of the Easter Rising, whereas the self-adhesive Easter Lily of the Officials was a novel invention, symbolic of the divergence of opinion between them.

According to Burton Russell, " That the name is a purely modern invention of uncertain origins makes it an elegant symbol of the modern Devil with his many novel and diverse forms.

Her second novel, Mona in the Promised Land concerns the invention of ethnicity ; it features a Chinese-American adolescent who converts to Judaism.

" T. Coraghessan Boyle of The New York Times Book Review wrote, " This is old Pynchon, the true Pynchon, the best Pynchon of all, Mason & Dixon is a groundbreaking book, a book of heart and fire and genius, and there is nothing quite like it in our literature ," New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani said, " A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring ... a book that testifies to Pynchon's remarkable powers of invention and his sheer power as a storyteller.

In the post-publication review for The New York Times, Edward Rothstein remarks that the scope of the novel is at times detrimental: " Unfortunately, in this novelistic cauldron it can sometimes seem as if mercury's vapors had overtaken the author himself, as if every detail he had learned had to be anxiously crammed into his text, while still leaving the boundaries between fact and invention ambiguous ".

However, Hernández also uses a rhyming six-line stanza (" like the six strings of a guitar ," said Lugones ) with a novel invention.

The development of new forms of geometric projection in the construction of perspective corresponds with the invention of novel pictorial art forms of visual representation in the Italian Renaissance, since the fourteenth century and up till the end of the sixteenth century, and specifically within the circles of architectural and artistic experimentation and design.

Jeffree Star's song title " Your Heart Is My Piñata " is a direct reference to the Katty Kathy quote of the Rhea sister's invention, with Jeffree's debut album " Beauty Killer " containing several references to the novel.

A novelty search helps an inventor to determine if the invention is novel before the inventor commits the resources necessary to obtain a patent.

The more general movement, carried forward only with struggle between poets, was the same as was present in the novel: the invention of the subjective self as a worthy topic, the emergence of a priority on individual psychology, against the insistence on all acts of art being performance and public gesture designed for the benefit of society at large.

A prospective student tells Galileo about a novel invention, the telescope (" a queer tube thing "), being sold in Amsterdam.

Arthur Miller described the novel: " Fascinating — a real satiric invention full of wise outrage .” The novel was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

Eventually they built the first perfusion pump, an invention instrumental to the development of organ transplantation and open heart surgery.

The concept and theory of Kolmogorov Complexity is based on a crucial theorem first discovered by Ray Solomonoff, who published it in 1960, describing it in " A Preliminary Report on a General Theory of Inductive Inference " as part of his invention of algorithmic probability.

The first AFVs were armoured cars, dating back virtually to the invention of the motor car.

The invention of the cannon, driven by gunpowder, was first developed in China.

The three finds push back the date of the invention of the crank and connecting rod back by a full millennium ; for the first time, all essential components of the much later steam engine were assembled by one technological culture:

Mademoiselle Riego de la Blanchardiere is generally credited with the invention of Irish Crochet, publishing the first book of patterns in 1846.

The invention of Cartesian coordinates in the 17th century by René Descartes ( Latinized name: Cartesius ) revolutionized mathematics by providing the first systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra.

Duddell didn't further develop his invention, but in 1902 Danish physicists Valdemar Poulsen and P. O. Pederson were able to increase the frequency produced into the radio range, inventing the Poulsen arc radio transmitter, the first continuous wave radio transmitter, which was used through the 1920s.

He added that several engineers described the invention " as one of the most important radio developments since the first earphone crystal sets were introduced.

The first cinema in Poland ( then occupied by the Russian Empire ) was founded in Łódź in 1899, several years after the invention of the Cinematograph.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon in 1865, some 11 years before the invention of telephones.

The invention was unveiled to the public in April 1935 and the first model, the Model A, was made available in June of that year.

His other reputed achievements include the discovery of Earth's precession, the compilation of the first comprehensive star catalog of the western world, and possibly the invention of the astrolabe, also of the armillary sphere, which he used during the creation of much of the star catalogue.

It has been identified as having " inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, Mathematics, Astronomy and Agriculture.

In his patent application of 6 February 1959, Kilby described his new device as “ a body of semiconductor material ... wherein all the components of the electronic circuit are completely integrated .” The first customer for the new invention was the US Air Force.

This invention is often considered to have been the beginning of electronics, for this was the first vacuum tube.

W. Granholm's jocular invention: see first quot.

This game was not the " invention " of the forward pass but it was the first major contest in which a team used the forward pass regularly throughout the game.

Hoffmann-La Roche then licensed the invention to the Swiss manufacturer Brown, Boveri & Cie who produced displays for wristwatches during the 1970s and also to Japanese electronics industry, which soon produced the first digital quartz wrist watches with TN-LCDs and numerous other products.

The famous 14th century Chinese text of the Huolongjing, which was the first to describe hollow cast iron cannonball shells filled with gunpowder, was also the first to describe the invention of the land mine in greater detail than references found in texts written beforehand.

Metal detectors were first used for demining, after their invention by the Polish officer Józef Kosacki.

He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, and the first to be mass produced.