Paper was invented by the Chinese.

Did the Indians invent cigars?

Why was money invented?

The Chinese have devised a novel solution.

The Beatles did not invent teenagers.

Paper was first invented in China.

Okay? Somebody invented it.

Computers were invented forty years earlier.

Photography was discovered in the 18th century.

This works until you invent newspapers.

In London, they make it sound like the French have invented extramarital affairs.

They devised the one country, two systems formula for Hong Kong.

Now it's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers.

Oh, well, your earrings, I don't suppose you invented the idea of earrings.

Reports also suggested that the authorities had invented new names for the Soviet era Ded Moroz and Snegurochka.

And they they're invented around the same time. I think beer came first.

Since independence, the post Soviet nations of Central Asia have invented a number of new 'national' holidays.

Banks have been holding our money for safekeeping since the fourteenth century, when the Florentines invented the practice.

We couldn't have a germ theory of disease before we invented the microscope to see them.

And it s actually something that we invented a few years ago, or created a few years ago.

The French may have invented the hyper mart the forerunner of the big box store but they never intended to let their growth go unchecked.

The currency was in theory governed by a rules based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies.

Over time, they invented fascinating ways to control their subjects, combining education, bribery, and force.

When we decided later to have a common foreign policy, and to cooperate in judicial and police matters, we invented the Union.

Beside the Mt'k'vari River in the eastern part of the country, this reawakening Georgian capital in the South Caucusus is said to be where the gods invented wine.

What have we invented or imitated successfully since the 2009 days of protest that has attracted the gaze of the world and the media?

In a bizarre twist, authorities plan to identify areas of high drug usage by testing the sewage system.

People from the so called first world look at us Latinos as if we hadn't invented the wheel yet.

The Charge coupled device (CCD) was invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E. Smith, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.

Its members claimed that the leaders of the Rosicrucian Order had invented Freemasonry and only they knew the secret meaning of Masonic symbols.

If no one had the bomb today, it would be best if it were not invented.

When that happens, I hope the antitrust authorities will consider a remedy that Ian Ayres, Hal Varian, and I devised.

And I was very touched by Dean Kamen's work for the military, or for the soldiers, because Charles and Ray designed a molded plywood splint. This is it.

I know a lot of people who invented the microprocessor and if you talk to them, they knew what they were doing was really significant, but they didn't really know what was going to happen.

I figured, surely some of the most creative artistic minds in the world, really, aren't all defaulting back to this one easy trope like they invented it, right?

So, we've invented ourselves. Of all the animals that we have domesticated, the most important animal that we've domesticated has been us. Okay?

Following litigation, Sony and Philips licensed Russell's patents (then held by a Canadian company, Optical Recording Corp.) in the 1980s.

Back in the early 1980 s, financial engineers invented portfolio insurance, a fancy active hedging strategy for controlling downside risk.

In general, it is possible to invent them, but why would we waste our time if it is already invented for us, and they are willing to share it with us.

Yes, Estonians invented Skype, the Internet telephone system, but in general Estonia, like the rest of Europe, is falling behind in both innovation and pure science.

The Greeks invented the comma, not for their literature but for their actors, to warn them to take a deep breath in preparation of an upcoming long phrase thus a comma represents a pause.

In 1947, the transistor, probably the most important invention developed by Bell Laboratories, was invented by John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley (and who subsequently shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956).

Although the world s central banks and finance ministries have been devising many ingenious and innovative policies to stimulate credit, so far they have not had much success.

Together, these companies invented mail order as the killer app of the railroad age, creating a continental market for consumer goods, with all of the economies of scale that followed.

Steve Wynn of Dream Syndicate said, They invented a whole new ballgame for all of the other bands to follow whether it was Sonic Youth or the Replacements or Nirvana or Butthole Surfers.