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The system that sets public spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is known as the Barnett funding formula, named after its inventor, the former Labour Treasury secretary Joel Barnett, who devised it in the late 1970s.

Originally it was the brainchild of a Swiss designer, Max Miedinger, who devised it in 1956.

He devised it in conjunction with Sony (he spent four months in Japan, he said, working on it) and he first used it in "The Bellboy".

Architect James Gamble Rogers devised it in the 1920s in the image of a Gothic cathedral – he was intent at the time on recreating Yale as an American Oxbridge.

The outfit, which has remained virtually unchanged since he devised it in the late 70s, meets the Friars Club rules and also has the virtue of being just a tad comedic, in an ironic sort of way.

For about a century, economic inequality has been measured on a scale, from zero to one, known as the Gini index and named after an Italian statistician, Corrado Gini, who devised it in 1912, when he was twenty-eight and the chair of statistics at the University of Cagliari.

US Airways inherited that system from its newly merged partner, America West, which devised it back in 2002 with the help of an industrial engineering team at Arizona State University.

Finally, the difference between cultivated plant taxonomy and the taxonomy of other plants has been attributed to the purpose for which the taxonomy has been devised, it being plant-centred in the Botanical Code and human-centred in the Cultivated Plant Code.

In the five years since the N.P.V. plan was devised, it has won enactment in seven states possessing 74 of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring it into effect.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet In the five years since the N.P.V. plan was devised, it has won enactment in seven states possessing 74 of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring it into effect.

The Camden Bench – named after the UK local council that devised it – is a masterpiece in unpleasant design.