Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

In 1730, he published the ( New Method for Determining the Distance from the Sun to the Earth ).

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Baekeland a patent for a " Method of making insoluble products of phenol and formaldehyde " on December 7, 1909.

" Casuistry: A Case-Based Method for Journalists.

Modern Casuistry: An Essential But Incomplete Method for Clinical Ethical Decision-Making.

Casuistry and the Quest for Rhetorical Reason: Conceptualizing a Method of Shared Moral Inquiry ( Diss., U of Washington ).

* Open-source Pinyin Chinese Input Method Editor: A free and open-source JavaScript jQuery plugin for web developers to build the pinyin input-method functionality into their own websites, supporting input for both simplified and traditional characters.

In 1892 he received patents in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and filed in the United States for " Method of and Apparatus for Converting Heat into Work ".

* Alfred Tarski ( 1951 ) A Decision Method for Elementary Algebra and Geometry.

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Dennis R. Hoagland and Daniel I. Arnon wrote a classic 1938 agricultural bulletin, The Water Culture Method for Growing Plants Without Soil, debunking the exaggerated claims made about hydroponics.

* Indexed Sequential Access Method ( ISAM ), a method for indexing data for fast retrieval

* Search for a Method / Question de méthode ( 1957 )

Many leading scientists including Newton and Huygens doubted that such a clock could ever be built and had more optimism for astronomical observations ( such as the Method of Lunar Distances ).

Chris Peters was the studio guitarist for The Polyfuze Method and Fire It Up.

* Luxol Fast Blue: Modified Kluver's Method to stain for Myelin Sheath

" Madness in Method Plus a Plea for Projective Inversion in Myth ".

In 1880 Edison obtained a further patent, US 224, 665: " Method of Preparing Autographic Stencils for Printing ", which covered the making of stencils using a file plate, a grooved metal plate on which the stencil was placed which perforated the stencil when written on with a blunt metal stylus.

The degree of chalking can be assessed according to International Standard ISO 4628 Part 6 or 7 or American Society of Testing and Materials ( ASTM ) Method D4214 ( Standard Test Methods for Evaluating the Degree of Chalking of Exterior Paint Films ).

The most directly relevant include " Autogeneric system " Inventor: Davis ; Dannie E. ( Elmore, AL ) ( March 1988 ), " Self reproducing fundamental fabricating machines ( F-Units )" Inventor: Collins ; Charles M. ( Burke, VA ) ( August 1997 ), " Self reproducing fundamental fabricating machine system " Inventor: Collins ; Charles M. ( Burke, VA )( June 1998 ); Collins ' PCT: and " Method and system for self-replicating manufacturing stations " Inventors: Merkle ; Ralph C. ( Sunnyvale, CA ), Parker ; Eric G. ( Wylie, TX ), Skidmore ; George D. ( Plano, TX ) ( January 2003 ).

* Method and apparatus for forming semiconductor structures, filed August 1954, issued February 1959, assigned to Philco Corporation

* Method of making a transistor structure ( coinventor William Shockley ), filed April 1957, issued July 1964, assigned to Clevite Corporation

* Method of forming a semiconductor, filed July 1963, issued May 1965, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.

In 1919, shortly after the Morkrum company obtained their patent for a start-stop synchronizing method for code telegraph systems, which made possible the practical teleprinter, Kleinschmidt filed an application titled " Method of and Apparatus for Operating Printing Telegraphs " which included an improved start-stop method.

* Method of and Means for Transmitting Signals, US patent for Baird's " Noctovision " infrared television system, filed 1927.

On August 13, 1931, Duston filed USPTO Patent Application # 556, 743 for " Method Of And Apparatus For Electrically Recording And Reproducing Sound And Other Vibrations ", and which was renewed in 1934.

* " Method of Making Memory Core Structures " ( The patent notes " This invention relates to magnetic memory devices, and more particularly to a new and improved memory core structure and method of making the same ...") filed January 30, 1962, issued August 9, 1966.

* Sound Record and Method of Making Same ( duplicate copies of flat, zinc disks by electroplating ), filed March 1893, issued October 1895

One theory refers to Mark Pringle, who filed a US Patent 2, 286, 644 titled " Method and Apparatus for Processing Potatoes " on March 5, 1937.

A few months later, William Bilodeau and Michael Songy filed a US patent application for the technique the same year,, entitled " Method for rendering shadows using a shadow volume and a stencil buffer " issued in 2002.

The first hearing aid with analog audio circuitry and automatic digital electronic control circuitry was based on US Patent 4, 025, 721, " Method of and means for adaptively filtering near-stationary noise from speech " by D Graupe, GD Causey, filed in 1975.

The patent was then accepted in the US gaining the patent number US 1745175 entitled “ Method and apparatus for controlling electric current .” In March 28, 1928 he filed for another patent in the US.

In 1956, Arnold Eldredge, of General Electric, filed a patent application for an " Object Camouflage Method and Apparatus ," which proposed using a particle accelerator in an aircraft to create a cloud of ionization that would "... refract or absorb incident radar beams.

On August 20, 1932, Earl J. Ragsdale, an engineer at the Budd Company, filed a patent application for a " Method and product of electric welding "; on January 16, 1934, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) granted US patent 1, 944, 106 to the Budd Company.

* Method and Apparatus for Reducing Noise Content in Audio Signals, filed October 1974, issued November 1976 ( auto-correlator noise reduction )

* Dimensional Sound Producing Apparatus and Method, filed April 1979, issued August 1980 ( sonic holography )

* Audio Amplifier and Method of Operating Same, filed November 1978, issued August 1980 ( magnetic field coil power amplifier )

* Dimensional Sound Recording and Apparatus and Method for Producing the Same, filed April 1979, issued January 1982

* Tuning Apparatus and Method, filed May 1981, issued November 1983

* FM Stereo Apparatus and Method, filed June 1982, issued June 1984 ( asymmetrical charge coupled stereo detector )

* Audio Amplifying Apparatus and Method, filed June 1984, issued April 1986

In 2008, Farrell's daughter Kathleen Firrantello filed a lawsuit against rappers Kanye West, Method Man, Redman and Common, and their record labels for allegedly using portions of Farrell's 1974 musical composition " Upon This Rock " in their songs without approval.