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ornithopter. Airplane and Aircraft. 3D illustration of Leonardo da Vinci's plans for an ornithopter, a flying machine kept aloft by the beating of its wings; about 1490.
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invention: References & Edit History

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Invalidated site: World Intellectual Property Organization - Inventions and Patents. Sep 14, 2026
Add new Web site: LOUIS Pressbooks - Writing Rhetorically: Framing First Year Writing - Invention. Jan 19, 2026
Add new Web site: OpenStax - Entrepreneurship - Creativity, Innovation, and Invention: How They Differ. Oct 28, 2025
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Interface - Invention as a combinatorial process: evidence from US patents. Apr 14, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteseerX - Invention as an Opportunistic Enterprise (PDF). Feb 08, 2025
Add new Web site: Historyworld - Inventions and Discoveries. Sep 16, 2024
Add new Web site: World Intellectual Property Organization - Inventions and Patents. May 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Creativity, Invention, and Innovation (PDF). Oct 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Part 1- What is Invention and Why Do We Care? Dec 09, 2022
Add new Web site: LiveScience - Top 10 Inventions That Changed the World. Dec 20, 2021
Media added. Nov 10, 2020
Add new Web site: Aalborg University - What is an Invention? Jun 18, 2017
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Invention. Mar 13, 2014
New table of inventors and inventions added. Jan 19, 2011
New article added. Nov 04, 2010
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