Skip to content

Inventions - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Reacuteaumur

to Reneacute Antoine Ferchault de Reacuteaumur conformed to the scale adopted by Reacuteaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented

Morse code

in which dots dashes and spaces represent letters numbers and other elements of text The original code was invented by Samuel B Morse The code now mostly used is the International Morse code also referred to simply

Phonoscope

An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies especially an apparatus invented by Koumlnig for testing the quality of musical strings

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Pedrail

arrangement permits the feet to accomodate themselves to obstacles even such as steps or stairs The pedrail was invented by one B J Diplock of London Eng

Pattinsons process

skimmings which concentrate the silver in the molten bath the final skimmings being nearly pure lad The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson an English metallurgist

Pasteurs fluid

An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other

Pandean pipes

the musical scale and fastened together side by side a syrinx a mouth organ said to have been invented by the god Pan Called also pipes of Pan Pans pipes and Panpipes

Otto cycle

of the gases fourth stroke expulsion of the products of combustion from the cylinder This is the cycle invented by Beau de Rochas in 1862 and applied by Dr Otto in 1877 in the Otto Crossley gas

Opodeldoc

A kind of plaster said to have been invented by Mindererus used for external injuries

Niepces process

A process now no longer used invented by J N Niepce a French chemist in 1829 It depends upon the action of light in rendering

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial