Swiss inventions

Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German ) and by the nicknames acid and lucy, is a semisynthetic hallucinogenic drug derived from ergot, known for its powerful psychological effects and serotonergic activity. It was historically used in psychiatry and 1960s counterculture; it is currently legally restricted but receiving renewed scientific interest and increasing use.

digital app distribution platform for iOS/iPadOS

thumb|A hair tension dial hygrometer with a nonlinear scale.

Muesli ( ) is a cold Swiss dish that has become a common breakfast cereal prepared without cooking. Developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner for patients in his hospital, in Switzerland, it is also consumed for supper as , i.e., muesli with (milk coffee accompanied by [bread, butter and jam]).

thumb|Bathyscaphe Trieste (bathyscaphe)|Trieste before its only dive into the [[Mariana Trench]] thumb|The Trieste in 1958

thumb|Chocolates wrapped in cellophane Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air, oils, greases, bacteria, and liquid water makes it useful for food packaging. Cellophane is highly permeable to water vapour, but may be coated with nitrocellulose lacquer to prevent this.

confection based on cocoa butter extracted from cacao

type of pocket knife containing multiple tools

type of electron microscope used for looking at atoms

thumb|A shoe using hook-and-loop closures

thin, flexible sheets of aluminium, used for wrapping food, and other purposes

hydroelectric energy storage station using two water reservoirs connected with a pump and a turbine

digital radio standard

musical instrument

Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine). Laudanum is prepared by dissolving extracts from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) in alcohol (ethanol).

kitchen utensil used to crush garlic cloves

physico-chemical processes contributing to protect a surface against oxidation

deep sea scientific submarine

type of saw

the agreement between a financial institution and its client

type of thin-film solar cell

thumb|280px|Tourbillon movement (:File:Stuhrling Tourbillon Movement.ogv|high resolution)

oxygen blowing with dolomite charging in steel furnace

Type of oil lamp

chemical compound

unique form of time zoning by watch maker Swatch for the connected world

kitchen appliance in form of a wand which can be used to blend ingredients or puree food.

type of scanning probe microscopy

thumb|280px|1890s photochrom print of Neuschwanstein Castle, [[Bavaria, Germany]] Photochrom, Fotochrom, Photochrome or the Aäc process is a process of colorizing from a single black-and-white negative with subsequent photographic transfer onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). Because no color information was preserved in the photographic process, the photographer would make detailed notes on the colors within the scene and use the notes to transfer the image through colored gels onto the printing plates.

process used to make microchips

upright=1.35|thumb|Conche (in the Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum) thumb|Granite roller and granite base of a conche

thumb|The Smaky 100 The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit personal computers and accompanying operating system developed by Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and others at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland beginning in 1974. The computers were used at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and in Swiss schools. The names derives from SMArt KeYboard, reflecting the form factor that contained a compact motherboard which fit within the same housing as the keyboard.

Design for clocks in train stations

card deck used in Switzerland

thumb|120px|Eidophor thumb|120px|Eidophor front view thumb|120px|Eidophor back view

ALD-52, also known as 1-acetyl-LSD (1A-LSD) and falsely as "Orange Sunshine", is a psychedelic drug of the lysergamide family related to lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). It is taken orally.

type of energy store, stores energy in the form of potential energy by changing the height of a large mass using gravity.

technology used in some liquid-crystal displays

type of monochrome passive-matrix liquid crystal display