The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th century that used free reeds driven by a bellows.

Art as we have generally understood it is a European invention barely two hundred years old.

Nationhood is a relatively modern, mainly European, and at the time of its inception, revolutionary invention.

Impaling tricks are not, however, a modern European invention, and some dervish orders performed such acts already in the 18th century.

The idea of projecting a moving film onto a screen in front of an audience was a European invention.

Hat-shaped helmets were not just a European invention.

Rain umbrellas, heavily waxed in the days before water repellents, are thought to have been an 18th-century European invention.

Firstly, in my view of course the question is wrong, because unfortunately fraud and corruption are not European inventions but occur at every level.

Human rights are not a particular European invention.

"Human rights were not a European invention," he said.