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  ,* design
  ,* design
  ,* discover
  ,* name
  ,* use
  ,* write

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Text-messaging was [ ] by the Finnish company Nokia. They wanted to help Finnish teenagers, who were very shy. They found it easier to text their friends than to phone them.

The first bikini was [ ] by two Frenchmen. It was [ ] after Bikini Atoll, the island where the atomic bomb was first tested. The Frenchmen thought that the bikini would have a similar effect on men as a bomb exploding.

Light bulbs are [ ] specially to last only a certain number of hours. It would be possible to make light bulbs that lasted forever, but then the manufacturers wouldn't make so much money.

The first Harry Potter book was [ ] in a cafe in Edinburgh. JK Rowling was unemployed, and she didn't have enough money to pay for heating, so she wrote it in the cafe where it was warmer.

Although penicillin was [ ] by Alexander Fleming, he didn't know how to make it into a medicine. It was first made into a medicine ten years later, by an Australian scientist Howard Florey.

Spiders were [ ] as a cure for toothache in the 17th century. They were first made into a paste, and then put on the bad tooth.

Sherlock Holmes, the great detective was [ ] by writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes was [ ] on a real person — Doyle's teacher at medical school, who was famous for saying to his students, "What can you tell me by just observing the patient?"