Which preposition to use with invention

of Occurrences 701%

Is there to be no other era, where man himself, like the sauruses, like the mastodon, shall have passed away, to be succeeded by some nobler animal structure, some loftier intelligence, some more cunning invention of the infinite mind?

in Occurrences 74%

When the framers of the Constitution met in high convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, a Connecticut Yankee, John Fitch, was then also working in Philadelphia upon his steamboat; but twenty years were to pass before the prow of the Clermont was to part the waters of the Hudson, and nearly a half century before transportation was to be revolutionized by the utilization of Watt's invention in the locomotive.

for Occurrences 37%

Your little invention for carrying a thread should be recommended to students and other isolated beings, notwithstanding their unaccountable propensity to pierce other substances than the cloth.

to Occurrences 34%

This fact I should not have thought it worth while to mention, had he not taken the sole merit of the invention to himself; at least I cannot hear that in his numerous public notices he has ever mentioned my name.

on Occurrences 17%

This hardly gives you the full week in London which you wished for, but circumstances have arisen that make it of great importance to us to be able to place your invention on the market as quickly as possible.

as Occurrences 16%

So that, after all, to suppose that Mrs. Bargrave could hatch such an invention as this, from Friday noon to Saturday noonsupposing that she knew of Mrs. Veal's death the very first momentwithout jumbling circumstances, and without any interest, too, she must be more witty, fortunate, and wicked, too, than any indifferent person, I dare say, will allow.

by Occurrences 15%

It was one of those ingenious inventions by which the savants of that time were awakened at the hour fixed for their work.

into Occurrences 10%

Thou shalt assume a light and fiery shape, And so for ever live within the world; Dive into women's thoughts, into men's hearts; Raise up false rumours and suspicious fears; Put strange inventions into each man's mind;

from Occurrences 8%

" Johnnie remonstrated, half-heartedly, as he gathered the crude little invention from the frames; but his proposition wore a plausible face, and she suffered him to take them.

at Occurrences 7%

He himself put its invention at a date a few years after this, and it has been bitterly contested that he did not invent it at all.

with Occurrences 7%

The sharpness of his speech cometh not from wit so much as from choler, which furnisheth the lowest inventions with a kind of pungent expression, and giveth an edge to every spiteful word: so that any dull wretch doth seem to scold eloquently and ingeniously.

than Occurrences 5%

Some, now acknowledged as innocent, were blared abroad by tongues less skilled in pure invention than in distorting truth.

without Occurrences 4%

He finds it easier to write in rhyme than prose, for the world being over-charged with romances, he finds his plots, passions, and repartees ready made to his hand, and if he can but turn them into rhyme the thievery is disguised, and they pass for his own wit and invention without question, like a stolen cloak made into a coat or dyed into another colour.

along Occurrences 2%

From it can be seen not only that he did, at this early date, realize the possibilities of his invention along various lines, but that it embodies the principle of the police and fire-alarm systems now in general use.

out Occurrences 2%

The hunchback got up from his desk, took the invention out of its box, and carefully inspected it, asking Allerdyke a few shrewd questions about the thing's possibilities which showed the caller that he knew what he was talking about.

between Occurrences 1%

some one invention between 1790 and 1835, describe it, explain the need for it, and the results which have followed from it.

before Occurrences 1%

" On the 10th of September, 1838, Morse enjoyed the greatest triumph of all, for it was on that day that, by invitation of M. Arago, the exhibition of his invention before the Institute of France, casually mentioned in one of his letters to his daughter, took place.

over Occurrences 1%

In them we see the losing victory of invention over the imagination that works with given facts.

among Occurrences 1%

[Rather a poverty of invention among us, I thought.]

under Occurrences 1%

And for what sum could the Government have kept this great invention under its own control?

up Occurrences 1%

" "I guess you're looking for another case like your father, sitting penniless around the house, tinkering on inventions up to the day he died.

against Occurrences 1%

Bread is a great invention against hunger, and a man needs to know nothing about the gastric juices to save himself from starvation when the loaf is in his hand.

within Occurrences 1%

By the French patent law at the time one who obtained a patent was obliged to put into operation his invention within two years from the issue of his patent, under the penalty of forfeiture if he does not comply with the law.

during Occurrences 1%

Think of the discoveries and inventions during the last forty years!

about Occurrences 1%

Look at you folk at Sellanraa, now; looking up at blue peaks every day of your lives; no new-fangled inventions about that, but fjeld and rocky peaks, rooted deep in the pastbut you've them for companionship.

Which preposition to use with  invention