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something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
the artificial language Esperanto was the brainchild of L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish oculist
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Six years before Karl Benz’s first car and almost two decades prior to Henry Ford’s initial inventions, George Selden filed the first patent for a road engine, in 1879.
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The possibility of what could be different has powered many of its inventions and helped define its national identity.
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Numerous healthcare innovations, integrative therapies and emerging treatments are currently being studied across the country.
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Claire Goodier, who leads the intellectual property division at UK Fusion Energy Ltd, confirmed that these applications represent the initial wave of STEP innovations entering the public sphere through the international patent framework.
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