Examples help to distinguish this difference. The light bulb and the MRI machine are classic inventions because each of them brought a brand new technical capability. Edison's electric light bulb was not an improvement on lighting techniques and methods that existed at that time - it was a new device developed through experimentation (Friedel. 2006). Similarly, the MRI machine was an unprecedented medical imaging method, based on a new development in the physics; there was no previous medical imaging tool that enabled similar non-invasive visualization of soft tissues (Waugh, 2018). These examples illustrate inventions as basic discoveries that open up the possibility where none existed previously. RESPOND TO THIS