Invention
Modern dichroic glass is available as a result of materials research carried out by NASA and its contractors, who developed it for use in dichroic filters. However, dichroic glass dates back to at least the 4th century AD, as seen in the Lycurgus cup.
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Famous quotes containing the word invention:
“The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
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who really writes. Talent
is an invention like phlogiston
after the fact of fire.
Work is its own cure. You have to
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—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)