There is a law of history that says weapons were invented before money.
But clearly, distraction was invented before the days of the computer and cellphone.
I think it's fair to say that I'll be inventing until the night before the show.
Doubleday himself made no mention of having invented baseball before his 1893 death.
"Because my sense was that he was making it up all along, inventing himself before our eyes."
The concept of a progress bar was invented before digital computing.
All that stuff was invented before Steve Jobs came on the scene.
They invented the checking account long before the bankers of Florence.
Thevenot invented the instrument some time before February 2, 1661.
Why was the lawn mower, for instance, invented before toilet paper?