1.   After the war he refused a commission and went back to the timber business, inventing a machine for grading timber and introducing metric measurements.

2.   But in that year the Palffy brothers invented a machine to do it.

3.   But the son and widow of the man whom Icee credits with inventing the machine dispute that version.

4.   Castillo contacted Alexandrov Pokhmelnykh when he learned that the Russian scientist had invented a machine that could produce atmospheric changes.

5.   Federal officials are also looking at whether someone other than those listed on the patent might have invented the machine.

6.   He introduced dress slacks and invented machines that could automate the addition of zippers and belt loops.

7.   Ivan Bordignon, an engineer who works at the Institute for Mankind, has invented machines to extract the pulp from the oddly shaped fruits.

8.   Itami has invented a machine that allows customers to design their own clothing.

9.   One of them was with Richard Zamboni, son of Frank Zamboni, who invented the machine six decades ago.

10.   Other scientists, skeptics all, say they see no chance of a time machine that can go back farther than when the machine itself was invented.