He discovered a technique for relieving joint and muscular pain and saved scores of people from the need for surgery.
Mohorovičić later discovered a technique for locating earthquake epicentres and calculated the travel time of seismic waves.
Down the road, researchers may find ways to reverse the biological attrition rate, discovering a technique for creating a new gamete, either egg or sperm, from an individual's DNA.
It is too early to say whether Giuliani has discovered a technique of earthquake prediction that works throughout the quake-active zones of the world (and could thus be a potential lifesaver for many millions of people).
Then he discovered a technique for freeze-drying worms in formaldehyde vapour, which would make some of the chemicals of the nervous system fluoresce, so that you could look at a the worm under the microscope and see which parts of it had been full of signal traffic when it died.
They discovered a technique so simple and effective it doubled how much people gave.
In the mid 1980s, Donnelly and Fefferman discovered a technique that allowed an important improvement of the Bochner Kodaira technique, which we call "twisting".
In 2010, hacker Barnaby Jack discovered a technique he dubbed "Jackpotting" - in which a cash machine could be made to spew out money.
Reich discovered a technique known as phasing, in which two musical activities begin simultaneously and are repeated, gradually drifting out of sync, creating a natural sense of development.
In a couple of years, he would discover a new technique of using magnesium to create flashes of light for photographic purposes, making it possible to give the public a glimpse of the dark basements that slum dwellers crowded into.
