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.