The specification of "inside" and "outside" employs a method invented in the nineteenth century.
Large crystals can be grown rapidly from the liquid elements using a popular method invented in 1918 by the Polish scientist Jan Czochralski and called crystal pulling.
Linear programming problems are NP, as the number of steps in the simplex method, invented in 1947 by American mathematician George Dantzig, grows exponentially with the size of the input.
That development, a refinement of a method invented in the 1950s by Union Carbide to produce protective polymer coatings, is what enabled, for example, the printable solar cells that Gleason and others have developed.
The closest precedent was an attempt in 2000 by a teacher of Pilates a popular fitness method invented in 1914 by a German prisoner-of-war, Joseph Pilates to enforce the trademark "Pilates" against another studio that used the name.
For the previous best method, invented in 1983 by Eugene Luks, a mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Oregon in Eugene, the number of steps grows almost exponentially with the number of nodes in the networks to be compared.
Part of the reason is that TB is still diagnosed in most parts of the world using a method invented in the late 19th century.
The first DNA sequencing methods were invented in the late 1970s, but pure DNA, ready for sequencing, was difficult to produce thus, making DNA sequencing labor- and time-intensive compared to other tools for making indirect inferences about genetic sequences.
In recent years a number of methods were invented in the data mining/machine learning field that have received little attention in the cheminformatics world even though they offer interesting properties for these types of applications as well - even compared to some similar algorithms published primarily in the cheminformatics space.
The best known vapor treatment method was invented in the early 1970's by chemists at the Library of Congress, Dr. George B. Kelly Jr., John Williams, Robert McComb and Donald Sebera.
