Invention is the starting point of technology and production activities. With the invention and application of stone tools and artificial fire, the history of human material production and social life began. The change and progress of technology, the improvement of productivity and people's living standards, and the development of social history are inseparable from development and creation. The progress of ancient society depended on the inventions of grinding stone tools, smelting copper and iron, making pottery and baking bricks, raising silkworms and weaving silk. /kloc-the industrial revolution in the 0/8th century originated from the invention of new textile machines and steam engines. Electronic computers and a series of modern inventions have fundamentally changed people's working methods, living conditions and social outlook. The history of human civilization is first and foremost a history of invention and creation.
Inventors in history often don't know the social significance of their creative activities. When they improve the existing utensils or crafts, they mostly start from their personal needs, and they don't and can't fully realize the great value and application consequences of their inventions. Moreover, they usually engage in inventions in an amateur way. In modern times, especially in modern times, people are more and more aware of the importance of invention, seeking for invention by offering rewards, encouraging and protecting invention by using the patent system, and making invention a special profession. Inventors have their own R&D institutions and organizations to exchange results, the research on the regularity of invention and creation has been paid attention to, and the education of invention and creation and the training of invention methods have been popularized. Modern scientific and technological inventions have greatly improved in consciousness, quality and quantity.
Technological inventions should make use of knowledge of nature and scientific principles and rely on technological innovation in production and engineering to play a role. Compared with invention, scientific research is more instructive and practical for material production. However, science must be invented to become technology, and technology must be invented to become new productive forces. Technical ideas and technical solutions are the intermediary from knowledge to practice, and are the key links in the process of transforming science into productivity and engineering application.