invented

Examples of invented in the following topics:

• Ogburn's Theory

  • Ogburn posited four stages of technical development: invention, accumulation, diffusion, and adjustment.
  • Accumulation is the growth of technology due to the fact that the invention of new things outpaces the process by which old inventions become obsolete or are forgotten—some inventions (such as writing) promote this accumulation process.
  • As diffusion brings inventions together, they combine to form new inventions.
  • Adjustment is the process by which the non-technical aspects of a culture respond to invention.
  • Ogburn posited four stages of technical development: invention, accumulation, diffusion, and adjustment.

• Patents

  • A patent is an amortizable, intangible asset that grants a business the sole right to manufacture and sell an invention.
  • A patent is a legal license granting its holder the exclusive right to make, use, or sell a specific invention.
  • A plant patent is granted to anyone that has invented or created a new plant, such as a unique strain of corn.
  • The value of the patent may be increased if a patent holding company defends its rights to the invention in a lawsuit.
  • However, the invention the patent secures will only generate revenue for ten years.

• Legal Barriers

  • A patent is a limited property right the government gives inventors in exchange for their agreement to share the details of their invention with the public.
  • During the term of the patent, the patent holder has the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the patented invention.
  • The patent provides incentives (1) to invent in the first place, (2) to disclose the invention once it is made, (3) to make the necessary investments in research and development, production, and bringing the invention to market, and (4) to innovate by designing around or improving upon earlier patents.
  • When a patent expires and the invention enters the public domain, others can build on the invention.

• Benefits

  • Second, students are more likely to engage in invention and problem-solving when they learn in novel and diverse situations and settings.

• Assumptions of Social Constructivism

  • Members of a society together invent the properties of the world (Kukla, 2000).
  • For the social constructivist, reality cannot be discovered: it does not exist prior to its social invention.

• Development of Photography

  • Camera photography was invented in the first decades of the 19th century.
  • Niepce died in 1833 but Daguerre continued on this path and eventually invented the Daguerreotype in 1837.
  • Even after color photography was invented, black and white photography still prevailed due to its lower cost and preferable appearance.
  • A number of chemical and physical photographic variations were made during the mid-19th century including the invention of the cyanotype, ambrotype, tintype, and negative on albumen.
  • He also invented the calotype process, which produces a paper print from a negative image.

• The Growth of the Cotton Industry

  • Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 resulted in massive growth in the cotton industry in the American South.
  • In 1793, Eli Whitney revolutionized the production of cotton when he invented the cotton gin, a device that separated the seeds from raw cotton.
  • With the invention of Whitney's cotton gin, cotton became a tremendously profitable industry, creating many fortunes in the antebellum South.
  • The invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the textile industry in the early nineteenth century and transformed the economy of the South.

• Mechanisms of Cultural Change

  • An invention that substantially changed culture was the development of the birth control pill, which changed women's attitudes toward sex.
  • Cultural change can have many causes, including the environment, technological inventions, and contact with other cultures.
  • Discovery and invention are mechanisms of social and cultural change.
  • New discoveries often lead to new inventions by people.
  • "Stimulus diffusion" (the sharing of ideas) refers to an element of one culture leading to an invention or propagation in another .

• Invention of Paper

  • Paper was invented by Cai Lun during the Han Dynasty of ancient China.
  • Cai Lun (202 BCE-220 CE), a Chinese official working in the Imperial court during the Han Dynasty, is attributed with the invention of paper.

• Commercial Farmers

  • Following the invention of the cotton gin in the late 1790s, cotton came to dominate southern plantations and became the quintessential example of a commercialized crop.
  • Agriculture in the West also became increasingly commercial after the 1830s, when Cyrus McCormick invented a mechanical mower-reaper that drastically increased the efficiency of wheat farming.
  • The invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry in the South and increased economic dependence on slave labor.
  • Wheat production in the West greatly increased with the invention of the mechanical reaper, patented in 1834.