| Even with its uneven moments, it is a skilfully written book that never stops inventing. |
| British writers had paved the way, inventing landscape gardening as a materialization of painting inside nature. |
| In 1760, Benjamin Franklin instructed a London firm to make him spectacles with two types of lenses fitted together, thus inventing bifocals. |
| Don't we have enough diseases in the world without inventing one out of whole cloth? |
| It's no coincidence that all the companies in this story hone their innovation skills by making time for blue-sky inventing. |
| After inventing the skin flick with The Immoral Mr Teas, he took infinite pains in a genre where very few pains were really required. |
