This is odd in a personality-driven time, for Machaut essentially invented the notion of the composer as name brand.

His parenthood of the string quartet, however, is beyond doubt: he essentially invented this medium singlehandedly.

Pixar's mastery of computerized 3-D animation techniques is undisputed - it essentially invented the form.

Through the force of his will, he essentially invented the AIDS dissident movement.

The nation that essentially invented football had fielded a player who was not prepared - or said he wasn't, which is just as bad.

Shannon developed information entropy as a measure for the uncertainty in a message while essentially inventing the field of information theory.

Here, we had to essentially invent from the ground up the way we animate characters and rig them.

That essentially invents 525 added lines of additional picture information, surmising what the new lines would show by looking at the lines above and below.

Europeans have a proprietary interest in maintaining a heritage they essentially invented.

He also essentially invented the blockbuster show.