(noun) Something invented. Example: "I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention."
"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."
"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!"
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."
"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?"
"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute."
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."