"invention" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His invention increased the efficiency by which whales could be captured and made it possible to hunt the larger and faster rorquals, the largest group of baleen whales.
- The invention of the internal combustion engine and its use in automobiles and trucks greatly increased the demand for gasoline and diesel oil, both made from fossil fuels.
- The 1945 invention of nuclear bombs briefly increased the strategic importance of military aircraft in the Cold War between East and West.
- The invention of the pendulum around 1656 suddenly increased the accuracy of the verge clock from hours a day to minutes a day .
- One of the unusual problems here is that new inventions don't reduce Government employment but increase it.
- The invention could perform the output of 25 laborers, cheapened finished lumber, and greatly increased the supply.
- In the decades that followed, the invention of airplanes, jets and rockets increased the plausibility of space travel and Martians visiting Earth.
- In the south, the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney radically increased the value of slave labour.
- As such his invention increased the effective range of canister shot from 300 to about 1100 m.
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