Sometimes it is described as having been designed, and sometimes as having been invented.
It's been a good year for retro futuristic devices becoming a reality, with a working hoverboard also having been invented.
This business predates the opera, having been invented for Sarah Bernhardt in "La Tosca," the play by Victorien Sardou, and it need not be retained.
Ms. Hermann (Miss Personality in 1956, Ms. not yet having been invented) came from Scotch Plains, where she markets commercial carpet backings made by the Dow Chemical Company.
Most of the other artists experiment with lithography, one of the more recent printmaking techniques, having been invented by Alois Senefelder, a German, in 1796.
We hold no brief for "featherbedding," a catchword with an aura of having been invented by a company public-relations man, or for "labor-sweating," a practice ascribed to management by the public-relations men for unions.
"Logic, having been invented by the Greeks in the Northern Hemisphere, does not apply south of the Equator," was a maxim that is still frequently cited, along with, "It is less important to find solutions than scapegoats".
Meldonium is particularly popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union, however, having been invented in Latvia and used to help Soviet soldiers to fight at high altitude in the 1980s.
